Women who used a virtual reality (VR) headset to watch relaxing immersive scenes — such as a walk through a forest or along a beach — experienced a reduction in labor pain, according to results from a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you were giving birth, what would be your choice: a longer labor with relatively less pain, or a shorter labor with terrible pain? That’s the question researchers posed ...

To all the women who've heard the frustrating "it's all in your head" in response to medical maladies, a new study out Friday ...

For women considered at low risk of complications and where labor is progressing normally, monitoring is recommended on an intermittent basis. This is usually via a handheld device every 15–30 minutes ...

The dismissive phrase “it’s all in your head” takes on new meaning when you understand that women literally process pain through different neural pathways than men. This isn’t about pain tolerance or ...

As baby's birth nears, you've surely got a lot of questions on your mind. Likely one of the biggest — especially if this is your first baby — is how you'll manage labor pain. While an epidural is the ...

The healthcare system and the process of inquiry that comes with assessment and diagnosis, while helpful and necessary in some respects, reinforces how we question and dismiss the physical and ...