Mother loses bid to use dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to grandchild

High court judge acknowledges daughter’s desire for children but rules that she had not given the required consent before she died of bowel cancer aged 28

Pregnancy food: what you eat can affect your child for life

You might think it’s a time to put your feet up and inhale a tub of ice-cream, but eating healthily during those all-important nine months can stop your child becoming obese, and avoid mental-health and social issues

Four years, 40 negative tests: why being young and infertile sucks

When Rebecca Seal decided at 28 she wanted a baby, she thought she was starting young. She and her partner never dreamed they’d need IVF. Wasn’t infertility an older person’s problem?

I’m thinking of having a baby on my own

My mother is supportive but I worry what people will think. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader

Pregnant women who exercise cut risk of diabetes, says study

The earlier in pregnancy women start exercising, the more benefit they gain, as well as helping to boost their baby’s health, says report

The fertility industry is one that sells hope – sometimes that hope is false

The latest headlines about fertility have predictably caused outrage. We need to ask why women feel they have to ‘delay’. Having a baby should be an achievable goal at any age

Why aren’t men in their 30s pressured to have kids? The answer isn’t biological …

Over the weekend women in their 20s were again under pressure to conceive. But this debate isn’t about fertility so much as an outdated social conservatism

The obsession with ‘natural’ birth is just another way to judge a woman

Judgments rain down on pregnant women – not least when they opt for a little medical assistance

Bereaved father uses his art to show how men share the pain of miscarriage

Artist stages ‘joyous and thought-provoking’ exhibition to raise awareness of how fathers deal with loss

Paracetamol use in pregnancy may harm male foetus, study shows

Researchers investigating reproductive defects in baby boys identify possible link between low levels of testosterone and paracetamol intake