From start (when to conceive) to finish (how to deliver), pregnancy is full of personal choices. No matter how you deliver — unmedicated, with an epidural, via an induction, or by C-section — you ...

When finalising their birth plans, expectant parents are often faced with the question of whether they should opt for natural birth or C-section. Image credit: Aditya Romansa on Unsplash Every ...

We are usually suspicious of pain-mongers. Think of the flinching reaction bringing up a "cutter" ensures. Sure, we are in awe of the guy who cut off his own arm to free himself from being trapped ...

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 ...

A woman in Germany has given birth naturally to an enormous baby that would usually have been born via Caesarian section. The baby was delivered weighing 13 pounds and measuring 24 inches tall on June ...

The Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities will host a Graduate Work-in-Progress lecture titled “Birthing Nature: Why One Childbirth Drug Was Natural and Another Was Not” Oct. 15 from noon to 1 p.m. in ...