There’s a robot for that. What a time to be alive — people are marrying AI bots, and now robots might soon be able to carry babies. Reportedly, China is working on designing a bot with an artificial ...

The author and her daughter Kessler's first selfie together on the day she was born. Photo Courtesy Of Zakkiyya Reece Even as a first-time mother, I thought I understood childbirth. I’d spent my ...

If you've heard or come across the term free birth, or unassisted birth, in parenting communities recently, you might be ...

Biologists have built up one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after pregnancy, by pooling and studying around 44 million physiological ...

There are so many things about pregnancy and childbirth in 2025 that seem wild to me, but when I hear stories about the realities of motherhood for my mom and my grandmas, it completely blows my ...

The concept of pregnancy and childbirth can prompt a range of emotional reactions. It’s normal to have conflicted and varied responses. For some though, the idea ...

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 ...

Black mothers in the U.S. are particularly at risk, National Geographic reports. "Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic ...