In the spring of 2017, Patricia Lockwood was hiding from her husband, avoiding an impending move to a new home. “You…
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Pregnancy: What is it, and what does it want? Most people could not answer that question. Most people don’t know…
Nicki Minaj once iconically rapped: “Goddamn, ain’t even pregnant but I’m birthin’ bitches.” It would become a…
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New York hospitals will permit people giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic to have partners present, despite…
“Birthing partners and support persons” are officially banned from delivery rooms at NewYork-Presbyterian’s…
“In 2019, no one should have to forfeit the joy of raising their child,” Bravo host Andy Cohen told reporters in…
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Earlier this month, Joy Buckley gave birth to a 15-pound, 5-ounce baby girl. “It was pretty violent,” she told the Ne…
A patient in a vegetative state at a nursing facility in Arizona gave birth on December 29, CBS News reports.…
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A healthy and successful childbirth is a miracle or a fact of life depending on who you’re asking, but this childbirt…
Among North America’s coastal elites, midwifery has become associated with finicky preferences, rigid orthodoxy, and…
Medical costs in the U.S. are astronomically high, even for a procedure as common as birth, but the bill can still…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that three women on the U.S. mainland have given birth…
Do you remember that guy who Facebook Live-d his wife giving birth, hastening the arrival of an era where literally…
Last month, Daljinder Kaur, a woman in her 70s, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Kaur underwent two years of IVF…
According to statistics drawn from Oregon—where home birth is popular and birth and death certificates include…
In late March, Indiana passed House Enrolled Act 1337, a comprehensive abortion bill that placed a series of…
In Knoxville, Tennessee, a woman has safely given birth to twins—five weeks apart. This process, which rarely…
“Uncle” Terry no more, alleged sexual predator and still-very-successful photographer Terry Richardson announced on…