Pregnancy
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Child born with lifelong damage after excessive drinking by mother is not entitled to compensation, judges say
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Midwives at St George’s hospital in London say outcomes are better for women giving birth in midwife-led centres and at home
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Child born with lifelong damage after excessive drinking by mother is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation, court rules
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Kate Edgely was amazed to be asked if she would consider a home birth for her second child after having had complications with her first, but she was very glad to have been given the option
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Peggy Young took her employer to court for placing her on unpaid leave when she was pregnant, but what about women who suffer in silence? We want to hear your stories.
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Milli Hill, Ellie Gibson, Joseph Harker: Nice guidelines now suggest that 45% of births are unsuitable for hospital wards but does this chime with out writers’ experiences?
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The US supreme court is hearing a pregnancy discrimination case that could have far-reaching effects for American women who work through their pregnancies
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Justices begin hearing case of UPS employee Peggy Young with potential to affect many American women who continue to work throughout pregnancies
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Jessica Valenti column If we truly valued motherhood, we would actually do something to help pregnant women
Jessica Valenti: For all of the court cases and conservative rhetoric, we’re failing global norms on nearly every policy that would support mothers, parents and families
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NHS guidance from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence suggests 45% of births ‘unsuitable’ for labour wards
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Couple sought out gender selection treatment, which is illegal in Australia, after having three boys
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Overweight mothers can affect child’s weight and health from very early age, warns new report
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Dressing for the festive period is always tricky. When you’re pregnant, it is a minefield. Kelly Bowerbank gives her top tips to see you through every seasonal occasion in style
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Amy Gray: As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible
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Louise Bridge keeps her only chance of a child stored frozen in a London sperm bank. But will she ever use it? She can’t decide and time is running out
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Curtis and Glenna Boyd have worked in US abortion clinics ever since Roe v Wade made the practice legal in 1973. Forty years on, restricted rights mean they have to practise under FBI protection. Karen McVeigh reports
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A hospital in eastern China offers fathers-to-be a chance to experience the pain of childbirth using pads that induce an electric shock
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Letters: These children often come through the care system and are brushed off to unsuspecting adoptive parents, who have little or no idea of how this will impact upon their family lives
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Emma Brockes: Notebook: I’m transfixed by New York’s high guys, whether outside my window or cheating death above the World Trade Center’s 68th floor
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Mannequins dressed as pregnant schoolgirls causes a stir at a shopping mall in Venezuela's capital, Caracas
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Fears that maternal death rates in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea could increase 20-fold as health facilities collapse
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Simon Jenkins: From drinking while pregnant to urinating on a war memorial, the law’s ambition has no limits
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Joanna Moorhead: Women with a drink or drug problem need support not condemnation. But are we prepared to help them?
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Editorial: Who will benefit from the bid to criminalise a woman who damaged her baby by drinking in pregnancy?
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The NHS advises pregnant women to avoid alcohol altogether, but studies suggest drinking in moderation does no damage
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Lawyers pursuing compensation claim on behalf of child, say mother’s heavy drinking constitutes crime of poisoning
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‘Scans revealed that I hadn’t miscarried but the embryo had attached itself to the scar tissue in my cervix. If left there, I’d die’
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She has come off antidepressants to prepare for pregnancy, but is she doing the right thing? Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
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Ally Fogg: There’s an awful lot of hanging around involved in childbirth, and Ayda Field didn’t seem to mind, so what’s the problem?
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Robbie Williams has uploaded a video of himself singing Let it Go from the Disney film Frozen as his wife goes through labour
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Growing wealth divide allows high-fliers who can afford childcare to have families, study suggests
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Esha Chabra covers projects from Pakistan to Tanzania that are showing how mobile money is facilitating both access to finance and to healthcare
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Pregnant women not exempt from proposal to take unemployed people under 30 off income support for six months at a time
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Letters: Our branch supported 68 families with 159 children last year. However, earlier this year our funding ceased after 17 years
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We can’t be complacent about pregnant women’s rights in Britain