Some people like being pregnant. I am not one of those people. And I remember the seemingly never-ending stretch of ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery the ...

“It’s truly hard to stay in a dark place for very long when I have my beautiful daughter smiling at me,” Jennifer Choate tells PEOPLE Jennifer Choate in the hospital. Jennifer Choate’s pregnancy was ...

The hospital allegedly received roughly $18.5 million in reimbursements from healthcare benefit programs between 2010 and 2019 for surgeries that left dozens of Black women victimized. The Chesapeake ...

Many women want a different kind of pregnancy and birth the next time around. Many want to see the same one or two midwives throughout, and want to choose where they give birth. And when the time ...

A late-night hospital visit for a North Texas mother in labor has sparked questions about patient care after a TikTok video showed a nurse asking the woman to complete paperwork while she cried out in ...

C-sections can be lifesaving, but sometimes the procedure can be overused. Data helped show how a hospital decreased its rates of the operation in healthy first-time mothers. By Sarah Kliff Times ...

The early stages of labor can be filled with a range of emotions for expecting mothers including pain and uncertainty. Preparing yourself for the unexpected — to the best of your ability — and ...

From placenta pills to okra water “labor hacks,” a new wave of modern birthing trends is spreading across social media — and new moms are trying them in droves. Many of these practices — some rooted ...

Women comprise the majority of workers in more than half of the 40 occupations that are most at risk of displacement by AI. In the near term, political and business leaders can prevent female workers ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday said that the economy continues to see a softening of the labor market despite the government shutdown delaying the release of official jobs and ...