The Chinese birth calendar brings ancient Chinese wisdom into the modern age, helping couples determine the sex of their baby and sometimes even plan baby gender prior to conception. Derived from the ...

Here’s how different forms of birth control stack up in their effectiveness, based on typical use. Female and male sterilization can prevent pregnancy for the rest of your life. Reversals are ...

Cleveland County has welcomed a new birth doula service. After 15 years working in various childcare roles, Maggie Hohne ...

You need to be 10 cm dilated to deliver vaginally. After the birth, you’ll deliver the placenta. The cervix, which is the lowest portion of the uterus, opens during labor through a process ...

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This article presents a period blood chart ... sign of pregnancy that doctors refer to as implantation bleeding. Dark red or brown vaginal discharge that occurs after giving birth is lochia ...

She has covered the persecution of religions in the global south, fertility and birth rate issues around ... choosing to prevent harm by preparing well for pregnancy—in other words ...

Whether such long-lasting differences result from pregnancy and birth themselves or from behaviours changing after the arrival of a child is a question for future research, say the scientists.