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Planning to give birth just a little early carries long-term risks for babies, as researchers are discovering. This is why we should be concerned.
Our statistical analysis found that as the sex ratio at birth went up – that is, more males were born – so did life expectancy in a strongly related manner.
Fear of perineal tearing is common as women prepare for childbirth. A simple warm pack can ease pain, prevent physical trauma and aid in recovery after your baby is born.
Fertility treatment in older age might be tougher, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done.
Turkey’s high cesarean rates cannot be tackled by top-down restrictive laws.
Does the growth of ‘freebirthing’ mean that women are rejecting professional advice? Or is there something else going on?
Delivering twins is a balance between preventing pregnancy complications and the dangers of prematurity. New research suggests there is an optimum time.
The reduction of childbirth to a ‘choice’ between surgery and vaginal birth with interventions comes from patriarchal views about the fundamental failure of the female body.
Physicians like me are learning about Zika along with our patients. This takes a dose of humility on our part and an understanding from our patients that we learn something new every single day.
New research has found a commonly used method of preventing early or pre-term birth (delivery of a baby before 37 weeks) may in fact be causing more to occur, and leading to further problems.
Are there other risks and complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth in your 50s and 60s – or even your 40s?
We don’t know much about fear during childbirth and its effects on outcomes for women and their newborns in the United States.
The most common complaint is conflicting advice, as well as staff who are “bossy, judgemental and inaccessible” and who undermine women’s confidence.
Is childbirth education important? Do all the programs aim to achieve the same thing and, most importantly, do they?
More than 300,000 women give birth in Australia each year. Most (97%) give birth in hospitals (72% of these in public and 28% in private), while 0.3% are born before they arrive at hospital.
Where birthing on country is not offered, women leave their families weeks before birth. Or she can choose to give birth in her community without skilled birth attendants, which is risky.
A century from now you’re likely to be considered a risk taker if you opt for natural conception and birth rather than IVF and artificial wombs.
More than two million women across the world suffer from obstetric fistula – a hole in the birth canal that makes them incontinent – but this can be avoided.
It happens more often than you think.
Top contributors
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Caroline Homer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Deputy Director (Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), Burnet Institute
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Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard University
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Professor in Midwifery, University of Sydney
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Professor of Midwifery and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University
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Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Senior Lecturer in Midwifery, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow in Maternal and Reproductive Health, University of Hull
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Research Fellow University of Notre Dame Australia; Adjunct Fellow (National Institute of Complementary Medicine), Western Sydney University, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Midwifery Studies, University of Central Lancashire
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NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute
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Professor of Midwifery, Griffith University
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Professor of Maternal and Child Health, University of Stirling
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick
