Is paternal postnatal depression delayed? New research finds a 30% increase in depression and stress diagnoses for fathers ...

NEW YORK-- Black women are at a significant disadvantage while pregnant and giving birth. That's according to a new study that shows Black women and babies die at significantly higher rates than their ...

More than one in eight women report feeling mistreated during childbirth, according to a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study found that mistreatment ...

New Canadian research suggests close to a third of life-threatening complications linked to pregnancy and childbirth happen ...

The Health Care Cost Institute tracked 460,000 people with employer-sponsored insurance who gave birth in 2018 to 2020 (the latest dataset available), following their total healthcare spending in the ...

After Selena Williams had a child, she found that along with her excitement of a new baby was disappointment due to insufficient postpartum support. Williams describes leaving the hospital with ...

Michelle is a lead editor at Forbes Advisor. She has been a journalist for over 35 years, writing about insurance for consumers for the last decade. Prior to covering insurance, Michelle was a ...

Under normal conditions, a mother is pregnant for about 38 weeks before entering labor, the process of delivering her baby. As labor begins, the mother's body produces large quantities of the hormone ...