Drinks firm sponsors midwife training on dangers of alcohol in pregnancy
Scheme aims to help one million expectant mothers but the public-private initiative has been criticised as a conflict of interest
Pregnancy: Does my bump look big in this?
Not long ago, pregnant women were confined to tent dresses. Now expectant mothers appear on magazine covers, tweet the happy news and flaunt their bellies in figure‑hugging couture. Veteran magazine editor Emma Soames wonders if it's a good thing
Donor eggs: But will the baby feel like mine?
At first, the idea of using a donor egg to conceive repulsed Briony Walker. But at 44, and with only a 1% chance of conceiving each month, she was forced to reconsider…
IVF multiple birth rate drops
Number of IVF twins and triplets falls in line with targets as women are encouraged to have only one embryo implanted
Born in the nick of time!
Viv Groskop meets Kasey Edwards, who found out at the age of 32 that she only had one year left to conceive
Lucy Mangan: I’m having a baby
'We've done seven dry runs to the hospital, none of them successful. The satnav, for some reason, refuses to believe such an institution exists'
Delivering safe childbirth in Afghanistan
More women die in childbirth in Afghanistan than anywhere else in the world. Global attention since 9/11 has led to more desperately needed midwives – will that change as troops pull out?
‘It’s weird to be growing a penis inside me’
Two years after tying the knot, Lucy Mangan and her husband, Toryboy, are about to have a baby. Are they ready? Are they heck…
Hope and ambition at the school for teenage mothers
When a 15-year-old has a baby, it doesn't have to mean the end of her education and her hopes of a career. Amelia Hill visits the school that treats motherhood as an opportunity
Home birth: ‘What the hell was I thinking?’
There's the blood, the pain, the second thoughts. Are home births an unnecessary trial – or the most rewarding way to have a baby? Amelia Hill joins one woman in labour to find out