A woman who recently gave birth prematurely on a Greek island may now have to remain there for six months. Thurza Blagg, from Sherwood in Nottingham was rushed to hospital in Rhodes on May 12 after her waters broke unexpectedly at 28
A woman who lost her husband to a brain tumour has given birth to their second child through IVF – 16 months after he died. Jadsip Sumal, 38, gave birth to her second child, Amandeep, on April 9, 2023, 16 months after
Efforts to support children to choose their own gender identity should start before birth, a professor of paediatrics has said. Lauren T Roth from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York described the issue as her “favourite topic” during an
Giving birth to a new baby and welcoming a precious little human being into the family is a joyous, life-changing experience. It can also bring mental health challenges for new mothers. In this month of May — which is Mental Health Awareness
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, welcomed their firstborn Prince Archie in May 2019. Ahead of his birth, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex announced they wanted to celebrate the expansion of their family more “privately”, ultimately going against
Pratima Kumari, a government health worker in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, sets off on her mini scooter every morning, crisscrossing vast corn fields and pineapple orchards to visit villages and meet young, married couples. She offers condoms and birth control
Births in Italy dropped to a new historic low below 400,000 in 2022, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, as the population continued to shrink. Italy’s death of babies is considered a national emergency, and fixing the problem was a prominent
Eight months after her boyfriend’s death, Kelly Kay gave birth to a boy and named her son after the boy’s father, Oregon’s Spencer “Spider” Webb. Webb died in July in a rock climbing accident. In Kay’s Instagram post debuting their son, day-old
A mother-of-three has shared her delightful experience when she gave birth to her 13lb daughter, touted as one of the UK’s biggest babies. Ruth Harvey, from Dundonald, Ayrshire, 36, welcomed her daughter Tabitha on February 28 and called the entire experience of
Both progestin-only and combined hormonal birth control slightly raises the chances of getting breast cancer, a new study with the University of Oxford found, but the overall risk remains low. The study, published in PLOS Medicine, found that new forms of progestin-only