As women who have gone through childbirth know, labor contractions and the birth process are typically painful. But women have been giving birth for centuries without pain medication. There are ...

If you’re within the last few months of your pregnancy, you might be in the process of creating your birth plan. A birth plan is a list of your wishes for the childbirth experience that can include ...

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is constructing a new University Hospital with state-of-the-art maternity ...

LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Having a baby is a major milestone for many women. But managing the labor pain can be a big hurdle in itself. "Since it was my first baby, I really didn't know what ...

In other cultures and languages, there are specific words for the feelings women experience during childbirth. In Swedish, the word is värkar. In Swahili, the phrase is maumivu ya uzazi. But in the ...

Research shows babies remember melodies they heard before they were born, responding to them with a sense of calm and ...

After my baby was whisked away to the NICU, I couldn’t stop replaying bad memories. A year and a half later, I was ready to ...

ON A COLD DECEMBER NIGHT in 2022, Autumn Walsh, a Gualala resident and expectant mother, and her husband decided to take Meyers Grade — a rural road in northern Sonoma County that leads to California ...

A Georgia personal trainer is sharing a laborious tale of giving birth — minus the actual baby. TikTok user Holly Smallwood claims she went through the painful and terrifying motions of labor, all ...

But what if birth didn’t have to be anything like that? What if it could be pleasurable? It turns out that there’s a movement trying to help more people experience this type of orgasmic birth. Also ...