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.
One in four Australian mothers had a negative birth experience.
By LittleDogKorat/Shutterstock
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.
Everyone is born to someone, so birth is everyone’s business – or so it seems.
Dariia Pavlova/Shutterstock
New WHO guidelines warn that medicalisation of birth is creating a lack of choice for birthing women.
Chinese women carry a disproportionate share of family responsibilities. Having more children and greater family demands could increase women’s work-family conflicts and jeopardize women’s careers. With the two-child policy, conflicts between work and family responsibilities are likely to worsen.
Shutterstock
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.
Is this how we got the sperm and the egg?
Sebastian Kaulitzki/Shutterstock
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.
Exercises can help women’s pelvic floor health during pregnancy and after birth.
COLLATERAL/www.shutterstock.com
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.
Research Fellow University of Notre Dame Australia; Adjunct Fellow (National Institute of Complementary Medicine), Western Sydney University, University of Notre Dame Australia