Conflicting swine flu advice for women causes chaos

Government no longer telling women to delay conception but expectant mothers advised to 'avoid crowds'

Row over swine flu advice to women wanting babies

Charity accused of scaremongering after telling parents that delaying pregnancy could cut risk of catching virus

It’s good for women to suffer the pain of a natural birth, says medical chief

Professor: mother and child would benefit if 'epidural epidemic' gave way to yoga and hypnosis

Eternal youth is an ugly obsession

Rebecca Seal: The west's ageing population has a choice - to accept the ageing process and get on with something more interesting, or to obsess about how to look younger

Can more men be persuaded to buy Tampax?

Kira Cochrane: A new campaign for sanitary protection running online stars a boy, Zack, who wakes up with a vagina

Not just pills and condoms

Anne Weyman: Messages on preventing pregnancy and disease have left better forms of contraception ignored

‘I felt totally out of control’

Many women who have an emergency caesarean are so shocked that they demand an elective section next time. Joanna Moorhead hears how hospitals are trying to reverse this trend

I identify as a man. How can I tell my partner and family?

I am 26 and have been in a relationship with a woman for four years, but I have not disclosed to her that I am a gender-identified man; I am biologically female

‘I came face-to-face with protesters at the Kansas clinic where I had to terminate my pregnancy’

First person: Whatever I did my child would die, and, as a grisly bonus, either action could result in long-term damage to my future ability to conceive and carry a child

Anti-natal

Zoe Williams: I hesitate to admit this, but in the third trimester I'm incredibly stupid. I wish I could skip this bit