NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Attempting to aid a difficult childbirth with forceps instead of immediately performing a C-section may not raise the risks to the baby in most cases, a new study suggests.

A consultant gynaecologist has been suspended after she was accused of bullying a terrified mother-to-be into agreeing to the use of forceps as she was giving birth to her first child at a NHS ...

June 5 (UPI) --A study by the University of British Columbia shows midpelvic forceps and vacuum deliveries have higher rates of maternal, infant trauma compared to cesarean-sections. "It is important ...

Until the final minutes of his mother’s pregnancy, until those awful moments when everything suddenly shifted from good to complicated to terribly bad, Matthew was expected to be a big, healthy baby.