April 27, 2017 58-year-old woman gives birth to twins in Mexico The babies, a boy and a girl, were born at 33 weeks and are in good condition.
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.
April 26, 2017 Kerstin Lindquist: A National Infertility Week message for my children's birth mother Birth mother, how could I forget? When I look at my daughter I see your skin, your eyes, your uncertainty.
April 26, 2017 Woman gives birth to baby at Nebraska zoo Kymica Hubbard wasn’t due until mid-May, so when she told her husband she was having contractions during a trip to a Nebraska zoo on Sunday, he thought she was exaggerating.
April 21, 2017 Florida couple welcomes naturally conceived quadruplets An Englewood couple went to their first pregnancy appointment expecting one baby - but they learned they were having four.
April 21, 2017 Woman who delivered while in a coma wakes up, meets 3-month-old baby Amelia Bannan was nearly six months pregnant when she suffered a skull fracture that resulted in a blood clot in her brain.
April 20, 2017 French regulator says up to 4,100 children victims of epilepsy drug An estimated 2,150 to 4,100 children in France suffered a major malformation in the womb between 1967 and 2016 after their mothers took a treatment against epilepsy and bipolar disorders known as valproate, France's drug regulator said on Thursday.
April 18, 2017 A pain in the night and a harrowing drive: A crisis in rural health care puts mothers-to-be on a risky road Clare Shirley's baby was coming, fast. Yet she faced a 2 1/2 hour drive to the nearest hospital that delivered. Her anxiety is familiar to many rural women.
April 18, 2017 Controversial 'three-parent baby' fertility technique takes off in Mexico City MRT involves transferring the nucleus from a mother’s egg to a donor egg, which in turn had its nucleus removed.