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Childbirth brings a plethora of exhausting new responsibilities — but some can affect your health in a good way.

More than one in eight women report feeling mistreated during childbirth, according to a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study found that mistreatment ...

Childbirth depends not just on hormones, but on the uterus’s ability to sense physical force. Scientists found that pressure ...

The Health Care Cost Institute tracked 460,000 people with employer-sponsored insurance who gave birth in 2018 to 2020 (the latest dataset available), following their total healthcare spending in the ...

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Giving birth to a child is one of the most dangerous things a young woman in this country can do. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lists pregnancy and childbirth as the sixth-leading ...