Consultant Camille Seigle said motherhood undid everything she knew about herself. She wants to help give other women hope.

Black mothers in the U.S. are particularly at risk, National Geographic reports. "Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic ...

A woman abandoned as a baby had all but given up hope of ever finding her birth family, until she got a text message that changed everything. Amber Nichols from Seattle, Washington, always knew the ...

Baby Eloise was only 14 ounces when she was born nine months ago Julia and John Thompson were excited to finally get pregnant after years of trying — but the excitement slipped into fear when they ...

Jessa Seewald recently gave birth to her sixth child. Jessa, who seems to welcome a new baby every two years, supplements her family’s income with social media and YouTube, often using her pregnancies ...

TOKYO—When Moeko Nishimura was preparing for the birth of her second child last year, she dreaded a rerun of the intense pain and slow recovery she experienced when her first child, a girl, was born ...

The mother, Suze Lopez, took a routine pregnancy test prior to a surgery. In what doctors in Los Angeles are calling a "medical miracle," a mother gave birth to a baby boy shortly after discovering ...

In the United States, childbirth costs anywhere from a few thousand to more than a hundred thousand dollars, leaving many young families in medical debt immediately upon welcoming a child into the ...

Intrusive, outdated and sometimes harmful procedures during childbirth remain routine in Croatian hospitals, where standards of care vary wildly and veer from WHO recommendations. Marija was under no ...