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After my miscarriages I didn’t need to talk – I needed access to better care

Until we shift the culture around baby loss, women will still feel abandoned, says Jennie Agg, a writer on women’s health

Pregnancy has taught me to relinquish control. So when lockdown arrived, I absorbed the shock

What pregnancy has also taught me so far is to feel my fear and then hope for the future anyway

I think the married woman I had an affair with is pregnant with my baby. What’s the right thing to do?

There’s little point in throwing a grenade into her life unless you are sure you can be there for the long term if the child is yours, says Annalisa Barbieri

Guidance to induce minority ethnic pregnancies earlier condemned as racist

Draft Nice guidelines for England, Wales and Northern Ireland will not solve poorer maternity outcomes for women of colour, say doctors

‘Mixed advice’ driving Covid vaccine hesitancy in pregnant UK women

Exclusive: campaign group warns of ‘wildfire’ of negative messaging given by healthcare professionals

The Surrogate review – compelling drama for a new kind of family

A woman’s decision to provide a gay couple with a child becomes very complicated in this refreshingly real-world drama

Pregnant women in England denied mental health help because of Covid

In 2020-21, only 31,261 out of 47,000 managed to access perinatal mental health services

‘I knew how dangerous things could become’: the perils of childbirth as a Black woman

When she was pregnant, Anna Malaika Tubbs was thrilled – then terrified, knowing the shockingly high death rate of Black women in childbirth. Could she find a way to stay safe?

‘No discussion’: significant increase in women being induced for low-risk births, study finds

Induced births lead to higher rates of medical intervention and are not recommended in uncomplicated pre-term pregnancies, so why are they on the rise?

Asthma in toddlers linked to in-utero exposure to air pollution, study finds

Developing foetuses ‘exquisitely sensitive’ to harm from tiny particles, scientists say

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