More than one in eight women report feeling mistreated during childbirth, according to a new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study found that mistreatment ...

In the United States, childbirth costs anywhere from a few thousand to more than a hundred thousand dollars, leaving many young families in medical debt immediately upon welcoming a child into the ...

Objectives The optimal maternal age at childbirth has been a topic of bourgeoning literature, with earlier ages offering physiological benefits for maternal recovery. In contrast, later ages to give ...

The grueling, intense pain that comes along with labor is something pregnant women are warned about and told to prepare for and fear. It’s how childbirth is almost always portrayed in movies and a ...

It's no secret that childbirth has a reputation for being incredibly painful. But the general consensus is that the excruciating pain is worth it thanks to the reward at the end - aka meeting the mini ...

The Health Care Cost Institute tracked 460,000 people with employer-sponsored insurance who gave birth in 2018 to 2020 (the latest dataset available), following their total healthcare spending in the ...

Ah, the miracle of childbirth. We’ve all seen pregnancy, labor, and childbirth depicted countless times in television and movies… and if you believed every movie/TV depiction of childbirth, you’d ...

Childbirth costs an average of $15,712 if you pay the full price without insurance and deliver vaginally. That goes up to $28,998, on average, if you have a caesarean section (C-section) without ...

I gave birth to my son five months ago, but I remember it as if it were five minutes ago. I spent my entire pregnancy searching for the answer to one question: “What does childbirth really feel like?” ...