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To give birth or not to give birth

In her book The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson describes pregnancy as an experience marked by a peculiar duality. On the one hand, ...
Becoming a mother was, for Hannah Sprouse, “the worst and best experience of my life.” The birth of her daughter, Sadie, in ...
A new study by researchers at Mass General Brigham finds that patients who undergo unscheduled or unplanned cesarean deliveries are at substantially increased risk of experiencing acute psychological ...
This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship Dennis A.
Childbirth has transformed from Christ's manger (left) to incubators (right), giving mothers and newborns a fighting chance to live. The temperature reading on one of the incubators at the newborn ...
In recent years, the birth rate in Kansas has been among the lowest it has ever been. In 2023, the Kansas birth rate was 11.6 births per 1,000 population, which is the lowest recorded, according to ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In August 2010, I traveled to Pueblo to tour Comanche 3. The coal unit, Colorado’s largest, with 750 megawatts of generating capacity, had begun producing ...