Maternal and infant care demands the highest medical standards because even small mistakes during pregnancy, labor, or ...

Early in pregnancy, Molly Ercole already had an idea of what she wanted for her childbirth. "I didn't want to see a different doctor at every appointment," says Ercole, a non-profit ...

Amid efforts to ease childbirth costs in Japan, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare is considering setting a uniform ...

Analysis from FAIR Health in 2024 found that the national median hospital charge for a vaginal delivery in the U.S. was just over $31,000, while a C-section had a median charge of around $44,400, for ...

Emily Boazman's video went viral on TikTok after she lost so much amniotic fluid that her pregnant belly appeared to deflate ...

A woman who was turned away from an Indiana hospital while in labor last month, only to give birth minutes later in her car, ...

Dallas Regional Medical Center announced that the nurse accused of ignoring a woman in labor is no longer employed at the ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

The health ministry is moving to standardize childbirth costs nationwide as part of efforts to make giving birth entirely free of charge and eliminate existing inequalities. Currently, delivery fees ...

A doctor and nurse who discharged a pregnant woman in active labor from an Indiana hospital just minutes before she said she gave birth in a vehicle on the side of the road have been fired following ...

The woman, who was born in central Asia, checked into the hospital with a smartwatch on her wrist, said two hospital workers who cared for her during her labor, and whom the Guardian is not ...