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
We should teach children about miscarriage during sex ed. Here’s why
A reported one in four pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Yet miscarriage, like abortion, is not included in most curricula