A roll about and a curry? Danny Dyer’s guide to bringing on labour

It may not be rooted in science but Danny Dyer is often right – so should expectant mothers be following his advice?

I was fearful of my daughter’s Down syndrome diagnosis. I had much to learn and more to unlearn

As noninvasive prenatal screening becomes more common in Australia, Elizabeth Callinan wonders what it would have been like to get a high-chance result

Have you seen the price of sperm? It’s time to democratise fertility treatment

Having a baby by IVF or IUI shouldn’t be something only the wealthy or lucky can do. We need to widen access – though I’m not sure EmbryoGlue can help

Most new and expectant mothers feel more anxious due to Covid, finds survey

Research by charity Tommy’s also found myths relating to pregnancy were still circulating

England’s first not-for-profit IVF clinic to open in 2021

British Pregnancy Advisory Service is setting up fertility network to address inequalities in provision

Giving birth seemed to spell disaster for my mental health. Were my anxieties unfounded?

I feared isolation, sleep deprivation and an end to the activities that had been keeping me well. I never expected to be filled with such love and wonder

Covid: NHS hospital trusts told to rethink pregnant women partner ban

Fresh guidance issued after growing outrage about women being forced to go through labour alone

The natural birth cultists care little about leaving women in agony

The horrors found by the Ockenden report are not alas confined to one maternity unit

‘It feels like a lost year’: the women who fear 2020 has stolen their chance of motherhood

With dating on hold, jobs lost and IVF postponed, many women fear their last chance to have a child may have disappeared. How are they coping?

‘Women feel they have no option but to give birth alone’: the rise of freebirthing

As Covid infections rose, hospital felt like an increasingly dangerous place to have a baby. But is labouring without midwives or doctors the answer?