Poor healing entails painful complications and impaired fertility, so women need counseling on the risks for future pregnancies.

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

Women who have cesarean births at an advanced stage of labor are about eight times more likely to develop scars in the womb ...

The second stage of labor (when you start pushing and deliver your baby) usually takes about one to three hours for first-time moms, but often less than an hour — and sometimes only a few minutes — ...

Cervical epithelial cells are far from passive bystanders in the body's immune system. New research shows they actually play ...

Placenta previa is a rare pregnancy complication that causes the placenta to partially or fully obstruct the cervix.

Depending on your health and the health of the pregnancy, doctors may choose to induce labor anytime after 39 weeks.

Baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), which is commonly used for cleaning in daily life, has recently been proven effective in ...