My workplace was supportive after a traumatic abortion. This should be normal Women are often expected to carry on without recognition for the time it takes to heal - physically and emotionally
Why I share my breast milk with other mothers With NHS milk banks often reserved for premature babies, parents are turning to informal networks. It’s time to make the milk-sharing system as efficient as that for blood donation
Pregnancy weigh-ins were stopped in the 90s – and they’re still a bad idea Yes, talk about healthy diets and weighing if there’s a problem, but calls to make this mandatory are misguided, says freelance journalist Lucy Jones
Burkina Faso botched FGM leaves 50 girls in hospital Girls as young as four taken to hospital amid fears that cutters are targeting younger girls and crossing borders to avoid detection