Pregnancy experience is a mix of excitement, delight, anxiety, and fear. This is natural considering a new family member is about to join, and the mother has to witness her body go through a complete ...

It's Black Maternal Health Week. Here's everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. When Tisheila Justice was pregnant with her twins 11 years ago, an idyllic birth plan that ...

In a recent study by researchers from the universities of Cologne and Düsseldorf as well as University Hospital Bonn, mothers across Germany were asked how they rated their experiences of "own ...

Join Garbagemom as she shares her intimate natural birth story, from labor to delivery without medical intervention. This ...

A movement may be underway that offers a path toward a birthing revolution that works from within the current healthcare system. The profound impact this particular method had on Ron to release fear ...

In a recent study published in the journal PLOS ONE, researchers explored mothers' childbirth and postnatal experiences, perceptions of their baby's early behavioral style, and whether they saw these ...

One in three Australian women experiences birth trauma, yet it is often dismissed as ‘normal’. Here’s how to recognise the ...

This study explored the perspectives of Black birthing people on how better communication with care teams may have improved their birth experiences. Researchers interviewed 30 non-Hispanic Black, ...

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Here’s everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. But amidst this painful reality, a story rooted in joy, agency, and radical ...

Improving the sometimes-devastating birth and post-natal experiences of wāhine Māori in Aotearoa is the aim of a group of University of Otago researchers. In the first of a series of studies, ...

The Childbirth Experience Questionnaire (CEQ2) was used to investigate how medical interventions influence the individual birth experience. The overall experience was rated positively. In a recent ...