Category: Pregnancy

More than 7 million American women have fertility problems, according to CDC figures. A small number of these women turn to in vitro fertilization to …

A recent Pew Research Center report showed that today's moms are older than their counterparts from two decades ago, and writer Rachel Lehmann-Haupt has a …

In light of statistics showing that nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, a team of Stanford sociologists is gathering more …

I'm a big fan of pregnancy-related old wives' tales - and a bigger fan of studies that try to determine their validity. I was thrilled …

I've always found the terms "baby brain" and "mommy brain" - used to describe memory and concentration lapses experienced by some pregnant women and new …

In an effort to better understand the effects of prescription medications on women and their unborn children, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, researchers at …

Last spring, when Stanford researcher Douglas Owens, MD, mentioned to me an upcoming study on the risks of labor induction, I took an immediate (and …

I stopped weighing myself about 8 months into my pregnancy (it just became too depressing after awhile), but there is good reason for mothers-to-be to …

With less than a month to go before my delivery date, maternal deaths are probably the last thing I should be reading about. But a …

I've been pregnant twice, and both times (thanks to a pesky autoimmune disease) meant months of extra ultrasounds and screenings and pre- and post-labor appointments …