LOVISA DAHL, 39, a Birth Preparation Mentor, lives in Spain with her husband Pelle, 53, a property manager, and their three ...

Are you wondering what childbirth pain will feel like for you ... People have described cluster headaches as feeling as ...

Some women experience less pain during childbirth due to a genetic variant, KV6.4, which acts like a natural epidural, ...

Brittany Sharpe McCollum, founder of Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services, shares her tips for an empowering labor and ...

GIVING BIRTH Throughout a pregnancy, the midwife would regularly examine the health of the mother-to-be and the fetus. During labor, medicinal plants were given to aid dilation and reduce pain.

Is giving birth painful? After years of censoring the truth, it’s time we talked more openly about the realities of childbirth and ... I was too busy screaming in pain, you see.

"We should change the notion that 'labor pains are a matter of course ... Many women in Japan give birth at small local clinics rather than large maternity hospitals favored overseas.

Most animals, including other primates, give birth alone, but humans require assistance during childbirth due to the ...

The researchers compared women who had their first child at different ages and found that those who gave birth before 26 or ...

Birdsall is among a growing population of women who are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives. Birdsall's youngest ...

“Picture childbirth, and you’ll probably think of a woman’s waters breaking, the mad rush to the hospital and, above all, the pain. But I know it doesn’t have to be that way. I had ...