Here's what happens during each stage of labor – from how long each stage lasts to what you might feel. Labor happens in three stages — early labor and dilation, pushing and delivery, and finally, ...

A woman has had a smooth pregnancy all along; she keenly adhered to clinic visits, an active baby has been performing all manner of somersaults in her belly then shortly before the due date, the ...

Women who conceive through in vitro fertilization and experience a serious pregnancy complication are twice as likely to deliver early (<37 weeks) compared to those with only one of those factors, ...

After your baby's birth, you must take another significant step: delivering the placenta. In most cases, it comes out naturally within a few minutes. However, sometimes, it doesn't. This is called a ...

Read, by invitation, before the Obstetrical Society of Boston, February 13, 1886.