A report released Monday by the infant and maternal health nonprofit March of Dimes says that only about 75% of babies last year were born to mothers who started prenatal care in the first trimester ...

Elizabeth Simms was 27 years old and about 31 weeks pregnant when she suddenly noticed the first signs of what turned out to ...

Pre-eclampsia, a condition that causes dangerously high blood pressure, is a leading cause of death among mothers and babies.

Postpartum women are at higher risk of depression and psychosis in the weeks after childbirth, a major new analysis shows. Compared to the year before pregnancy, the risk of depression is about 20 per ...

There are plenty of things women are told not to do while pregnant — but a few of those old-school “rules” have been debunked. Want to take a bath? Exercise? Go for it. Other rules, though, exist for ...