During pregnancy, you’ll face many decisions, one of them being whether to use pain medication in childbirth. While it’s not right for everyone, choosing to go without medication during labor can have ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Despite the common belief that pain, pressure and incontinence are normal after childbirth, scientists are warning women ...

Childbirth can be extremely painful, whether you have a C-section or a vaginal birth. There are ways to manage this pain, such as epidurals and breathing exercises, but each person's experience will ...

The Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology in Schaumburg, Illinois-a sprawling exurb of Chicago-is home to an obstetric treasure: a plaster cast of a newborn infant's head. The bust shows the trauma of ...

Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...

Sarah Dunant gave birth to her two children in 1987 and 1990, and her experience informed her portrayal of childbirth in her 2003 book 'The Birth of Venus' Becca Longmire is a digital news ...

There is currently a plethora of television shows and movies, both fictional and non-fictional, which characterize themselves as portraying the realities of childbirth. More often than not, these ...

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 ...