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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Severe maternal morbidity lowers likelihood of subsequent births. Subsequent birth rates were lowest with severe ...

Similar increases observed for higher-order births; increase in mean age at first birth seen in all racial and ethnic groups. HealthDay News — From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the mean age ...

Background: Negative experiences of first childbirth increase risks for maternal postpartum depression and may negatively affect mothers' attitudes toward future pregnancies and choice of delivery ...

A mom who turned to adoption after going into kidney failure during first childbirth has shared the emotional moment she was able to hold her adopted second baby for the first time. During the birth ...

Childbirth changes you in so many ways, both physically and emotionally. As you navigate your way through nighttime feedings, spit-up stains, and dirty diapers, don’t neglect your own health and ...

Jeanine Valrie Logan sat in traffic for nearly two hours while she was in labor with her third child. Logan was determined to have her daughter at a birth center — a type of small facility focused on ...