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A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

Your first prenatal care visit takes place when you are 8–10 weeks pregnant. This initial visit typically takes 40 minutes. You will see either a midwife or women’s health nurse practitioner during ...

While another of the life-altering experiences of having a child is finding out the age-old question—boy or girl—many parents choose to take advantage of modern-day imaging and find out during the ...

The study also found that women with a history of GLP-1 use had a 30% higher risk of developing gestational diabetes, a ...

Abortion is a procedure to terminate a pregnancy. Birth control and emergency contraception do not end a pregnancy — they prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place. Birth control pills and ...

A California family is celebrating this holiday season after the "miraculous" birth of their baby, who grew outside his ...

The California OB-GYN primarily cares for Latina-identifying pregnant people and those with a Spanish-language preference. In ...

Barbara Higgins delivered her son Jack at 36 weeks. Barbara Higgins did a CrossFit workout on the day she was told she would need to be induced into labor, and then delivered her son Jack in about ...

While prenatal screening and diagnostic tests detect most birth defects, there are many conditions that simply can’t be diagnosed during pregnancy because of the nature of the condition. Share on ...

In the journal JAMA Network Open, ECHO Cohort Consortium researchers reported a negative association between weekly prenatal ...