The latest episode of The Handmaid’s Tale broke a lot of ground with its portrayal of a scene that was not only crucial…
It’s a moment nine months in the making—although, in another way, it’s been in the works a lot longer than that. The…
During childbirth, the vagina has to stretch to accommodate a head the size of a grapefruit. This, you may imagine,…
Is it cruel to have children when the world is so terrible? That's not a new question. And when a newspaper columnist…
Although the field of childbirth has remained pretty stagnant as far as fields of medicine go, it's been making some…
This birth assistant training aid appears to be a great training tool for birthing, and a great teaching tool. But dear…
Bringing a child to term costs more in America than anywhere else on Earth, according to today's New York Times.
So the Dutch have this experimental television show called Proefkonijnen (it translates to "Guinea Pigs"), where…
Placenta - it's not just for shampoo anymore. There is a rising belief that eating a human placenta after child birth…
An international team of doctors and scientists announced in 2010 that it had recorded the world's first video of…
MamAmor Dolls are the umbilical-intact, placenta-producing creation of Adriana Guerra, a doula in Canada, with three…
Childbirth, though wonderful, can also be quite traumatic. That can be particularly true for the parents of premature…
This Etruscan ceramic fragment is over 2,600 years old, and it's quite possibly the oldest depiction of childbirth ever…
At first glance, there's no good reason why humans would evolve the ability to give birth to twins. Indeed, human…
Darwin's frog, found in the forest streams of Argentina and Chile, has quite possibly the weirdest birthing method of…
As someone sans womb, I'm not terribly qualified to opine, but my guess would be that a text message is the last thing…
Patents! They are often completely fucking insane. But here's my question about this one, "Apparatus for Facilitating…
Many men might watch helplessly as their wives are about to give birth, but not Leroy Smith. As soon as Smith realized…
People have posted videos of deliveries before, but this Lynsee girl has decided on a live video stream when she gives…
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