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UK watchdog has had 40 reports relating to pregnancies in people using drugs such as Ozempic and MounjaroWomen using weight-loss drugs have been urged to use effective contraception after dozens have reported becoming pregnant while taking the medicati…
Baby charities’ report shows that high rates of stillbirth and neonatal death are not reducing quickly enoughA delay in improving NHS maternity care is costing the lives of hundreds of babies a year, analysis has shown.At least 2,500 fewer babies would…
‘Shocking blind spot’ in data collection comes despite ‘well-documented racial disparities in maternity care’The NHS is facing criticism for not recording the ethnicity of people who sue it over poor maternity care, despite black, Asian and minority et…
Small increase amounts to 3.6 million births and an increase in the women aged 40-44 giving birthThe number of births in the US increased slightly in 2024 to roughly 3.6 million, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Pr…
Mistake at Queensland fertility care clinic results in woman unknowingly giving birth to another patient’s baby after embryos mixed upGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastA woman has given birth to another person’s baby after…
Grace Davidson gives birth to baby Amy Isabel after receiving her sister’s womb in 2023Surgeons are hailing an “astonishing” medical breakthrough as a woman became the first in the UK to give birth after a womb transplant.Grace Davidson, 36, who was a …
Alarm over ‘the health of the nation’s children’ follows federal workforce cuts by health secretary RFK JrMultiple maternal and child health programs have been eliminated or hollowed out as part of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) layo…
The gay couple, who travelled to the US for the birth of their son, could be among the first Italians prosecuted under a new ban on domestic surrogacyThe Italian parents of a child who was recently born in the US via surrogacy say they are too afraid t…
Exclusive: Marie Tidball tells of her experiences with NHS as report finds 44% higher risk of stillbirth for disabled womenWhen doctors tried to work out whether Marie Tidball would need a specially designed birth plan, one asked her to lie fully cloth…
Changes to sentencing guidance will also apply to mothers of children under one year oldPregnant women should not be sent to jail unless it is “unavoidable”, according to new sentencing guidelines.The guidance, published on Wednesday by the Sentencing …