The primary risk is with sheep, during the lambing season, although pregnant women are also advised to keep clear of other farm animals giving birth, such as cows and goats. The new advice comes from ...

Official data found there were 252 maternal deaths from 2022 to 2024, which is 20% higher than the rates from 2009 to 2011.

It is an established and alarming fact that Black women are more likely to die during childbirth than white women. This is why Rianka Dorsainvil, a CFP and co-founder of 2050 Wealth Partners, decided ...

The age at which American women are giving birth has shifted. Over the past three decades, birth rates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s, ...

Hospital labor and delivery units are shuttering across the nation — including more than two dozen in 2025 alone.

For home births to "laughing gas," more women are tailoring their deliveries. — -- Giving birth is the most primal act in a woman’s life. And yet, modern medicine has turned birthing into a ...

A Wisconsin Democratic lawmaker was criticized over social media for using the term "birthing bodies" instead of women while tweeting about the potential reversal of Roe V. Wade. State Rep. Francesca ...

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center, the only free-standing birthing center in the state since 1997, recently changed hands as national trends show that these types of facilities are growing ...

A Democratic lawmaker from Wisconsin is being shredded online after she referred to women as “birthing bodies” in a defense of abortion. Roberts is seeking to find whoever leaked the draft, and the ...