‘It’s my wife’s pregnancy, not mine, but it is our baby’

When my wife and I decided to have a child that she would carry, I thought being a woman, in a same-sex couple, would help me empathise. I was wrong

‘I tackled the Channel’: the challenges our readers took on while pregnant

Serena Williams won a grand slam in her first trimester – so we asked you for your amazing feats while expecting. Here is a selection of responses

Serena Williams’s pregnant victory reminds us how amazing women’s bodies are

The tennis star triumphed at the Australian Open without dropping a set while in her first trimester. Are women the weaker sex? I don’t think so

Talking about your miscarriage doesn’t make you ‘privileged’

After the writer Ariel Levy wrote about losing her baby, she was attacked for her ‘entitlement’ – but you don’t need to be hurting more than everyone in the world to say you’re suffering

Motherless mothers: the one I need to share all this weight of love is not here

Soon after discovering she was pregnant, the ITV newsreader Charlene White felt the pain of losing her mother all the more keenly

Several home pregnancy tests recalled after false negative results reported

Family planning clinic alerts regulator to product’s deficiencies, leading to market sweep exposing more faulty devices

Drug scandals and the media – the unresolved case of Primodos

Primodos: The Secret Drug Scandal, airs on Sky this week. Will this media intervention repeat history by helping campaigners get compensation?

Pregnant women without legal status ‘too afraid to seek NHS care’

Growing number of women who fear being reported to Home Office or being hit with high bills are avoiding NHS, charities say

Pregnancy test’s alleged link to birth defects to be reviewed by UK regulator

Watchdog to examine new files found by campaigners while Primodos maker Bayer denies it caused abnormalities

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy review – a memoir of wanting too much

The New Yorker writer had a life that balanced domesticity with intellectual and sexual adventure. Then it fell apart