Better care urged for pregnant women with mental health problems – study

Deaths from indirect causes such as suicide have remained constant despite overall fall in maternal mortality rate

We can’t be complacent about pregnant women’s rights in Britain

Rebecca Schiller: A local authority has failed to make drinking in pregnancy a crime, but we should be wary about further attempted incursions

Mother who drank heavily when pregnant not guilty of crime, court rules

Child born with lifelong damage after excessive drinking by mother is not entitled to compensation, judges say

Call us, say midwives, as they back home birth advice

Midwives at St George’s hospital in London say outcomes are better for women giving birth in midwife-led centres and at home

Judge rules mother not guilty of crime for drinking while pregnant

Child born with lifelong damage after excessive drinking by mother is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation, court rules

Should pregnant women be encouraged to shun hospital labour wards?

Milli Hill, Ellie Gibson, Joseph Harker: Nice guidelines now suggest that 45% of births are unsuitable for hospital wards but does this chime with out writers’ experiences?

Low-risk pregnant women urged to avoid hospital births

NHS guidance from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence suggests 45% of births ‘unsuitable’ for labour wards

Eating for two ‘increases risk of obesity in babies’

Overweight mothers can affect child’s weight and health from very early age, warns new report

We don’t know why a mum abandoned her newborn baby. But we do know that the system fails mothers

Amy Gray: As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible

‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out

Curtis and Glenna Boyd have worked in US abortion clinics ever since Roe v Wade made the practice legal in 1973. Forty years on, restricted rights mean they have to practise under FBI protection. Karen McVeigh reports