Birth
Giving Birth in Jail Can Traumatize Women for Decades
Restraining women while they're giving birth is "demeaning and unnecessary." Some institutions still don't care.
The Women Teaching America About the 'Fifth Vital Sign': Periods
After caring for pregnant people who lacked basic knowledge of reproductive health, nurse Kelsey Knight and doula Emily Varnam created a course using menstruation as a measure of health and taught it across 43 states.
New Dads Tell Us What Freaked Them Out in the Delivery Room
"He was this screaming little blue nugget."
Christine Curry Is Helping Expecting Mothers With Zika Prepare For an Uncertain Future
The Florida doctor is one of the leaders in the fight against the debilitating disease.
More Indonesian Women Are Getting C-Sections Than Ever Before
How are attitudes around childbirth and pregnancy changing in modern Indonesia?
Giving Birth in Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors of Pregnancy in Yemen
The civil war and subsequent famine in Yemen has gone largely unnoticed by the international community. Pregnant women and children are among those suffering worst.
Giving Birth in Air Strikes: The Life-Threatening Horrors of Pregnancy in Yemen
The civil war and subsequent famine in Yemen has gone largely unnoticed by the international community. In a country that is being slowly starved and bombed to death, pregnant women and children are among those suffering worst.
LIVE: Watch This Pregnant Giraffe Welcome Her Baby into Our Dark and Troubled World
Witness the miracle of life or whatever right now.
Doula, Musician, and Mother Domino Kirke on How to Stay Sane in the New Year
Brooklyn singer, birth worker, and sister to 'Girls' actress Jemima Kirke speaks to Broadly about her work as a mother, a doula, and why she wants us to accept ourselves as we are in 2017.
Meet the Death Doula Who Helps People Deal with the 'Bookends of Life'
Increasingly, people are turning away from institutionalized births and funerals, which some find impersonal and intimidating. Laura Saba is there to help on both sides.