General anesthesia appears to be safe for both mother and baby during a C-section, researchers recently reported in the ...

Cesarean section (C-section) childbirth is a common surgical procedure used to deliver babies when a vaginal birth is not possible or safe. While it can be life-saving for both mother and baby, it is ...

Readers respond to a front-page article about fetal heart monitoring and C-sections. Also: When Shirley MacLaine was the ...

Regional anesthesia—typically with a spinal or epidural block—has long been favored for cesarean births due in part to ...

Recovering from a C-section while caring for a newborn is tough—but what if you could heal at home with expert support?

When journalist and professor Rachel Somerstein had an emergency C-section with her first child, the anesthesia didn't work. She says she could literally feel the operation as it was happening. Later, ...

The number of cesarean sections and serious maternal complications around childbirth have decreased in recent years in New Jersey, according to a new report, a welcome development for a state that has ...

After years of bad news about the state’s alarmingly high rate of maternal complications and deaths, a new report shows signs that pregnancy and childbirth are getting safer in New Jersey. New Jersey ...

An 18th-century Hungarian woman made history this week—her mummified remains preserve the earliest direct evidence of C-section. Sadly, neither she nor her full-term son survived. Which raises the ...

Meghan Trainor gets real about motherhood, prepping for her second child and starring in a Super Bowl ad. (Photo: Getty Images) Meghan Trainor’s first experience with childbirth was a rocky one: Son ...

A somber balloon release was held outside NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull Wednesday night, marking two years since the ...

When one mom finally paid off her hospital bill for giving birth nearly two years ago, she turned to TikTok to see if others ...