Hospitals and Healthcare

"I cried the whole night," one new mother said of her hospital stay.

When pharmacist Ifeoma Onwuka, known to her friends as Laura, went into hospital to have her daughter, she and her husband hoped the delivery would go smoothly, and that they would soon be able to take their new arrival home  to meet her siblings. 

How could anyone come to terms with the sudden, seemingly inexplicable death of their six-day-old baby boy?

We need stories about giving birth, in all their gore and glory. So why are we so slow in sharing them?

My new novel is about a midwife’s daughter in the old American west. The peril pregnant women underwent, then and now, became all too vivid once I became a parent

In parts of the world women are commonly mistreated in health facilities during childbirth, World Health Organization and University of Melbourne research finds

Researchers find that women's weight is behind significant number of pregnancy complications, including stillbirths.