Pregnancy News

A number of new laws affecting employers took effect on January 1, 2012. Learn more about them and how employees may be affected as well.

Americans shared a collective jaw drop when JaMichael Brown of Longview, Texas, came into the world last summer weighing a whopping 16 pounds.

WEDNESDAY Feb. 1, 2012 -- The morning-after pill may help shrink painful fibroids and relieve excessive bleeding, new research indicates.

Beyonce and JayZ are not the first parents to choose a baby name that is a color, but baby Blue Ivy might be one of the most recent ones to be well known.

Despite a decrease in home births between 1990 and 2004, the number of home births actually increased between 2004 and 2009 by 29%, an upturn of 0.56% in 2004, to 0.72% in 2009.

Historically speaking, home birth was were the vast majority of babies were born prior to the 1900s.

Shares of Columbia Laboratories once again took a beating yesterday, cut by more than half, after a negative 13-4 vote by the FDA Advisory Committee on Friday after-hours, recommending against approving its progesterone vaginal gel 8% Prochieve in reducing the risk of pre-term birth in women with a single gestation and a short uterine cervical ... (more)

We spend a lot of time talking about pregnancy symptoms . What they are, what they mean and how to deal with them.

'Silent Thalidomide': Thousands of mothers and their daughters at risk of cancer from anti-miscarriage drugs they took decades ago Thousands of women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES are unaware they are at greater risk of a number of cancers, according to experts.

Women whose mothers were prescribed the common pregnancy drug DES will be encouraged to seek compensation as it has been linked to certain cancers.

You're probably looking very forward to the day that your baby is born. You've been imagining it for months.

Welcome to 2012 - a Leap Year! That means that at the end of February, we'll get a whole extra day, February 29th.

BACKGROUND: Second-trimester medical termination of pregnancy is associated with a higher risk of surgical evacuation than earlier medical TOP.

A new Canadian study suggests smoking marijuana while pregnant is an effective way to combat morning sickness, though researchers note the findings are far from conclusive.