For some women, the birth of their baby is one of the happiest days of their lives. Others remember it as a frightening, overwhelming or deeply distressing experience. Around one in three women report ...

Some people leave a lasting impression, but certain birth months seem to carry extra emotional weight when it comes to moving on. Whether due to their personality traits, intensity, or the way they ...

Women who have been exposed to multiple traumatic experiences during childhood have more difficult births than others. They are much more likely to need emergency cesarean sections, suffer major ...

Human childbirth has long been considered especially risky, owing to upright bodies with large brains moving through narrow birth canals, but it turns out we're no outliers: difficult births are ...

The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. As soon as the two bright pink lines on my home pregnancy test appeared, happily and suddenly, I knew ...

Difficult birth has been recorded in species that seem, at first glance, to have little in common with humans. Even whales and dolphins show obstructed births, despite lacking a fully formed bony ...