When a pregnancy lasts 42 weeks or more or complications arise, women will need to consider being induced.
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Stillbirths affect many women but the science of finding out which pregnancies are at risk hasn’t moved on as much as you would think.
Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth.
There are a number of barriers to a father’s involvement in the first 1000 days of his child’s life.
A court has ruled that pre-existing mental health problems can be taken into account.
Each year an estimated 100 000 women have complications during childbirth which leave them with obstetric vaginal fistula.
We recorded the first scientific evidence that having a baby affects women’s voices.
By showing us a world from which mothers are largely absent, Mary Shelley reminds us that the genius of motherhood lies less in biological reproduction than in the capacity to love.
While childbirth is often a joyful event, it rarely unfolds exactly how we think it will. This causes disappointment among some women, and leaves a small proportion with a diagnosis of postnatal PTSD.
New WHO guidelines warn that medicalisation of birth is creating a lack of choice for birthing women.
How does the two-child policy in China impact women’s equality? Do women have the ability to stop when they no longer want more children?
Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth.
BBC’s Call the Midwife is a celebration of working class women’s labour. In its frank, but sweet, discussion of childbirth, it has much in common with fairy tales.
An ancient sexual conflict over mitochondrial inheritance may be responsible for the evolution of the two sexes as we know them.
Having a baby could provide even more motivation.
Society holds paradoxical views of childbirth, which can make the debate around it confusing.
Teenagers, unmarried women and migrants are among those missing out on antenatal care in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, according to new Australian research.
Women need to be given more information about pelvic floor health during and after pregnancy.
Childbirth in the U.S. can be dangerous and dehumanizing. An ob/gyn who traveled recently to India to review childbirth there says the U.S. and India fall short in similar ways.
Midwives should provide continuous support during labour and birth and they should respect women’s choices when it is within safe practice to do so.
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Caroline Homer est un·e adhérent·e de 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
