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A mother's womb containing her unborn baby was lifted from her abdomen during a life-saving operation. Lucy, 32, a special ...

A nurse practitioner at Corewell Health Children's Hospital in Royal Oak helped a patient navigate cervical cancer treatment ...

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At 14 years old, Coleman learned that she’d never be able to carry her own baby due to a disorder affecting her uterus and cervix. At the time, Barker made her teen daughter a promise ...

When contractions are about five minutes apart and the cervix, the baby's passageway out of the uterus, has opened to a diameter of about four centimeters (1.5 inches), the mother has entered what ...

If your baby is born too soon ... it may be an abnormally short cervix or a combination of factors. In about half of all cases, no cause can be found. The number of babies born prematurely ...

Elective labor induction isn’t always best for your baby. If it’s done before you are at least 39 weeks along in your pregnancy (one week away from your due date), or before your cervix is ...