Childbirth can be a profound and transformative experience, one that embodies complex emotional challenges. Childbirth experiences can have profound and lasting consequences, both positive and ...

For decades, one idea has shaped discussions about human evolution and birth: humans endure unusually difficult childbirth ...

The typical birth narrative that you read online is a tale of harrowing disappointment. The mother had “spent months—if not years—dreaming” about her baby and her pain-medication-free birth. Often, it ...

The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies ...

A study led by the World Health Organization has reported that physical and verbal abuse of women during labor is a worldwide phenomenon. Women who are unmarried, young or uneducated faced the highest ...

Many women experience headaches after childbirth. However, each type of headache has a different pattern of onset and ...

BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of pregnancy and childbirth. The journal welcomes submissions on the biomedical aspects of ...

Department of History, Birkbeck College, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, UK Childbirth incited “considerable dread” in Amy Barkas. In 1889, her husband Frederick wrote a series of letters to ...

Breast cancers diagnosed during the first three years after childbirth, particularly within the first year, may be ...