A new CDC report finds more pregnant women are delaying prenatal care until later stages or going without it altogether.

Some infections during pregnancy show no symptoms in the mother. But they can quietly affect the baby's brain, hearing, heart ...

Previous reports have indicated that between 20% and 60% of pregnant women in Ireland consume alcohol during pregnancy. Data ...

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a hormonal condition that may raise miscarriage risk, particularly in the first trimester ...

For many people, a missed period is the first signal that they're pregnant. However, this often isn't the first sign of pregnancy your body gives you. From hormonal changes to swollen breasts or ...

Early prenatal care improves the chances of having a healthy pregnancy and baby. The share of U.S. births to women who began prenatal care in the first trimester dropped from 78.3% in 2021 to 75.5% ...

Week 3 of pregnancy often feels silent and uneventful, leaving many women worried when they notice no signs of conception. During this stage, fertilisation has already occurred, the embryo is dividing ...

Pregnant women miss early prenatal care at increasing rates, with 24.5% delaying care in 2024, per CDC national birth data analysis.

For the first study, published yesterday in eClinicalMedicine, an international roster of researchers in the INTERCOVID consortium mined data from 6,527 pregnant women with and without a COVID-19 ...

We understand how stressful bleeding during early pregnancy can be. We’re here to provide answers and peace of mind. Many people have light spotting to heavy bleeding and have a healthy pregnancy. Up ...

A new study by cell biologists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, suggests that an early first pregnancy may protect against breast cancer decades later by preventing age-related changes in ...

When I was five months pregnant with my second child, I woke up to warm fluid leaking beneath me in the middle of the night. Bleeding during pregnancy can be understandably scary, and I feared the ...