Increasing numbers of women are dying during pregnancy or in the weeks after giving birth

Official data found there were 252 maternal deaths from 2022 to 2024, which is 20% higher than the rates from 2009 to 2011.

Your birth stories: 'I've never felt grief like it, and I was never the same again'

Nearly 6 in 10 women in the UK have a negative experience while giving birth, saying they do not feel listened to. Sky News ...
Women's Health

‘After giving birth, women need far more support’

A recent report revealing the shocking extent of traumatic birth incidents in the UK has – rightly – shone a light on the essential need for more robust NHS maternity services. 'In many of these cases ...

Major hunt for mum who left hospital after giving birth

The Metropolitan Police are deeply concerned for the welfare of a woman in her 20s who left a Romford hospital shortly after ...
Philadelphia Mag

How to Prep for Giving Birth, According to a Philly Expert

Brittany Sharpe McCollum, childbirth educator and founder of Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services, shares her tips for an empowering labor and delivery. I want to make a birth plan. What should ...
Inverse

Giving birth permanently alters your bones — fossil records reveal

Image courtesy of Paola Cerrito and Timothy Bromage. Depending on whom you ask, giving birth can be a miraculous, horrifying, incredible, painful, or primal experience. In most cases, it transforms ...