May 19, 2017 Aunt gives birth to twin nieces after acting as surrogate for sister An aunt who stood by her sister as she went through nine miscarriages and a failed in vitro fertilization attempt gave birth to her healthy twin nieces after offering to be a surrogate for her sibling.
May 15, 2017 California baby born weighing 13.5 pounds A California family was expecting their newest addition to be big, but nobody predicted that Raymond Reyes would making his debut on April 30 weighing a whopping 13.5 pounds.
May 15, 2017 Ex-ESPNer had miscarriage during live broadcast A former ESPN presenter who was laid off last month on her first day back from maternity leave shared a moving post with her Instagram followers on Sunday in honor of her first Mother’s Day.
May 15, 2017 Mom dies day after giving birth to healthy son Funds are pouring in for a family in Louisiana left reeling over the death of a new mom who went into cardiac arrest just a day after giving birth to a healthy baby boy.
May 12, 2017 NICU babies' moms get special Mother's Day gift in hospital Mothers of a Kansas City hospital’s tiniest patients were gifted a special keepsake in honor of Mother’s Day this week, when photographers teamed up with March of Dimes and Saint Luke’s Hospital to capture precious moments during a skin-to-skin bonding session.
May 11, 2017 What it's really like to have a home water birth Two women who’ve done it share their experiences.
May 9, 2017 Can puppies protect babies from allergies and obesity? Reuters Health) - Exposing babies to puppies and other furry pets might help them accumulate two types of bacteria in their gut that are associated with a lower risk of allergies and obesity, a Canadian study suggests.
April 28, 2017 Father of baby born with terminal illness: 'No changing the fact she would die' In a moving essay on the blogging platform Medium, the father of a baby born without a brain whose story went viral explained the devastating moment he and his wife discovered she would be stillborn.
April 27, 2017 Parents who carried baby without brain to term say heartbreaking goodbyes The Oklahoma City couple whose story went viral after Royce Young posted a touching tribute to his wife Keri, who, moments after being told her baby did not have a brain, asked if she could carry her to term so they could donate her organs, welcomed and then said goodbye to their newborn daughter Eva on April 17.
April 26, 2017 Cheap blood drug could prevent thousands of maternal deaths in developing world A cheap and widely available drug could save the lives of one in three of the 100,000 new mothers who bleed to death after childbirth every year, mostly in poorer countries, according to the first study of its use in postpartum haemorrhage.