Maternity

Anti-abortion advocates want to open more of these transitional housing facilities to meet a growing need. But they also must overcome a traumatic legacy of coerced adoptions in the decades before Roe.

The organization works to combat the maternal health crisis of people of color by raising funds and awareness surrounding the need for care.

A new law makes Florida the first state to permit cesarean sections in "advanced birth centers." Some health experts are leery even though many hospitals have closed maternity wards.

The American Academy of Pediatrics changes its policy citing drugs used to treat HIV can reduce the risk of passing the virus to infants to less than 1%. About 5,000 people who have HIV give birth in the U.S. each year.

The expansion, approved Monday at a meeting of the governor and cabinet, will allow eligible state employees to receive paid maternity leave for up to seven weeks and parental leave for two weeks, which can be combined to provide nine weeks of paid leave for mothers.

One in five women nationwide report negative experiences with their healthcare providers during and following pregnancy.

Top Senate and House budget negotiators met Wednesday but did not make public offers on health care spending.

You wouldn't know it by looking at her but, according to her mother, Sandra Lobaina was a biter. “I bit her," said Lobaina, smiling, when asked to...

For many parents, no stone is left unturned when preparing to have a child. There are books, classes, and blogs to prepare both mother and father for...

The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein.