November 7, 2016 WHO doubles recommended number of health visits during pregnancy The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers - eight - as it recommended previously.
November 4, 2016 Anti-abortion Poland offers payments for disabled newborns Polish lawmakers approved a plan Friday to pay a bonus to families whose child is born disabled - part of a policy aimed at curbing the number of abortions.
November 4, 2016 Mom says childbirth sparked 3-week-long orgasmic sensation A midwife in the U.K. claims that natal hypnobirthing helped her experience pain-free labor and an orgasmic sensation for up to three weeks after the birth of each of her four children.
November 4, 2016 The effects of Zika on babies' brains go beyond microcephaly, report finds A new report highlights the range of damage Zika infection can cause a developing fetus.
November 4, 2016 'Shotgun' marriages up among some groups The "shotgun marriage" may be on the decline: It's only very rarely now, statistics from one state suggest, that couples hastily marry to avoid the social stigma of an out-of-wedlock pregnancy
November 3, 2016 Hospital charges full delivery fee after Florida woman gives birth in car A South Florida mother says she’s being charged thousands of dollars in delivery charges even though she gave birth in a car in the hospital parking lot.
November 3, 2016 Strict law pushes Polish women to have abortions abroad While the streets of Warsaw have been engulfed by vehement protests over the government's plan to further restrict abortion, individual Polish women are struggling daily to find ways of ending their unwanted pregnancies.
November 3, 2016 Fewer millennials wearing condoms, some experts say Two years ago, Abby Norman was in the heat of the moment with a guy she was casually dating.
November 3, 2016 Infant deaths during home birth often tied to delivery problems When U.S. babies die during home births, the cause is most often labor and delivery complications, birth defects or infections, a recent study suggests.
November 2, 2016 Zika infections double in Vietnam as cases increase in south The number of confirmed Zika cases in Vietnam has more than doubled over the past three days to 23, with a dozen of the new infections recorded in the commercial hub of Ho Chi Minh City, the health ministry said on Wednesday.