Pregnancy

Reading Diane Noomin’s feminist comics allowed me to feel the full range of my own grief.

A radiologist with an uncanny visual sense, she revolutionized the diagnosis of fetal abnormalities like Down syndrome.

Vaccine debates, pandemic parenting and general burnout have converged to create yet another shortage in the United States: of women willing to carry other people’s babies to term.

An inexpensive blood test can warn couples if they face one in four odds of having a baby with the disease. No one ever told Lametra Scott and Rickey Buggs about it.

Turns out, women have been singing, chanting and humming through childbirth for centuries. But can it actually provide relief?

Doctors recommend them before, during and even after a pregnancy. But regulation is spotty and finding the right pill can be hard.

Conditions like hypertension, high cholesterol, obesity and diabetes in a father may affect whether a pregnancy reaches full term.

A doctor struggles with the lack of data surrounding the Covid-19 vaccine and pregnancy.

The stem cells in this vital fluid could save someone’s life, but it probably won’t be your child’s.

Women who had Covid while expecting experienced guilt, shame and unhealthy levels of stress.