The Canadian government has banned polycarbonate infant bottles, the most popular variety on the market, after it officially declared one of their chemical ingredients toxic.

This is the question posed by Judith Rooks, CNM, MS, MPH, a well-known midwifery author, epidemiologist, and researcher.

Funny drawings showing you the right and wrong way to take care of baby.

TENS - a method of labor relief common in the U.K. but little known in the U.S., can act as a block to pain messages to the brain, and also cause the body to release natural endorphins.

If you have considered an out-of-hospital birth center, you may want to learn more about them.

Laboring women, midwives, nurses and doulas all have reasons to hate the dreaded persistent OP position of the fetal head.

As an expectant mother approaching your due date, a concern that looms large in your mind is the pain that you will experience during labor. Will you be able to cope?

Babies should move at least 10 times every 12 hours. Most babies move much more often than that. Some even move hundreds of times each day. 

Almost any kind of sexual activity is all right in pregnancy if there are no problems and the mother-to-be (that's you) wants to have it.

First, it is important to know that your "due date" should really be thought of as a "due month."