A birth experience can be traumatic even if it doesn’t end in an emergency cesarean, nurse Jen Hamilton said. Having conversations, asking questions and making plans can prepare you for the best ...

In an effort to better understand women's birth experiences and develop ways to improve these experiences, the Maternity Center Association created the Listening to Mothers survey. This is the ...

Labor and delivery tends to occupy the minds of expectant parents the most. Read on if you have questions about the signs and length of labor.

The birth of Shelagh's baby has been anticipated for almost the entire series and we watched the bump expand. But first, the labor.

But all types provide valuable lessons for labor, delivery, and postpartum issues. Some teach parents the medication -free methods of managing the pain of childbirth.

Gigi Hadid’s Birth Doula Carson Meyer Spills on What it’s Really Like in the Birthing Room (Exclusive) 'Growing Together: Doula Wisdom & Holistic Practices for Pregnancy, Birth, & Early ...

While labor and delivery nurses are there in the room helping pregnant people endure the pain of contractions and epidurals, they are also sometimes dealing with bored, judgmental partners.

The author just gave birth to her first child recently, and shares all the products that helped her get through labor and delivery.

On TikTok, Nurse Sydney, 25, a labor and delivery midwife from Canada, revealed the most surprisingly stressful things expecting grandmothers have said to laboring moms in the delivery room.

Precipitous labor can happen so fast that even if the mother makes it to the hospital, there is sometimes no time to transfer her from the ER to the labor-and-delivery unit.

Most women give birth lying on hospitals beds. But a Harvard OB-GYN wonders whether that's the best birthing position, noting the surging popularity of birth centers, where women often labor while ...