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This is the sixth post in a series. In the book Matrescence: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood, Lucy Jones talks about the shocking lack of information available to women regarding what childbirth ...

Editor's note: This story has been adjusted to clarify that Mothering Justice was part of a coalition of organizations behind the "MI Momnibus" bills. Tamika Jackson's heart stopped beating while she ...

Cuts to Medicaid and legal confusion around patient care post-Roe v. Wade may prevent improvements in the maternal mortality rate. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Mothers make a lot of sacrifices, some of which start before the little bundle of joy is even born…and yes, you can add ...

A Bakersfield family received the shock of a lifetime after a woman learned she was pregnant with her baby growing inside of her abdomen.

NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial ...

A California woman was scheduled to have a large cyst removed but, in the lead-up to the procedure, learned she had a rare ectopic pregnancy.

In April, just 12 weeks into her pregnancy, Kathleen Clark was standing at the receptionist window of her OB-GYN’s office when she was asked to pay $960, the total the office estimated she would owe ...