Forty-one percent of moms said pregnancy did not go as planned, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 American moms looked at their experience while pregnant and found that 39% created a game ...

Positive pregnancy affirmations can help you maintain and reinvigorate your faith in your body and help you feel more confident about giving birth. Affirmations are statements that you use ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

HOW TO TAKE THE POST-TEST: Click here after reading the article to take the post-test on myCME.com. Up to 25% of all women in the early stages of pregnancy will experience vaginal bleeding or spotting ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

Iowa lawmakers have approved a bill requiring schools to show students in 5th-12th grade a video of the stages of pregnancy that "depicts the humanity of the unborn child." The bill bans information ...

In the setting of incomplete abortion, watchful waiting is 90% effective. 3 In a pregnancy of unknown location—defined as a pregnancy too early to be visualized, a positive pregnancy test, and no ...