If you're planning to have a cesarean delivery — or C-section — or you want to be ready in case you need one, here's what you need to know about recovery, pain and other symptoms.

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Dr Kirkup led the public inquiry into the deaths of 11 babies and one mum at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS ...

A new blood test has the potential to identify a hard-to-predict but sometimes deadly pregnancy complication weeks before it would normally be found, leading to early treatment and possibly prevention ...

Rising global temperatures pose a serious threat to the health of pregnant women and babies, say Wits researchers.

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The pregnancy complication is marked by high blood pressure and can lead to liver or kidney damage and is not usually ...

One of the midwives involved in the birth of a baby girl who later died has been excused from giving evidence to an inquest ...

As the Irish poet W B Yeats once wrote, ‘All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.’ Or as non-Irish poet ...

Paris-based sales company Alpha Violet has taken international sales on teen mental health drama “How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World,” a first feature by Austrian filmmaker ...

Figure 1. Pathogenesis of preeclampsia. Preeclampsia is a syndrome with heterogeneous etiology and a spectrum of phenotypes. It may appear at varying gestational ages with different degrees of ...