Brianna Mckenzie was feverish and shaking in her bed as night drew near at MLK Community Hospital. The pregnant woman was a week and a half past her due date. She had come to the Willowbrook hospital ...

Not all early contractions mean labor. Learn what preterm labor looks like, and when to call your provider to keep you and ...

maternal or fetal stress infection or inflammation vaginal bleeding that comes from inside your uterus and overdistention of the uterus (Overdistention usually happens to women who’ve had twins or ...

What Do Labor and Delivery Nurses Do? Labor and delivery nurses have a wide range of responsibilities. They typically care for multiple pregnant, laboring, or postpartum patients at one time. Labor ...

No one goes into labor 100% fully prepared for what’s going to happen, but here are some things that may help leading up to the big day.

When you hear the word “labor,” you may think about lying in a hospital bed, having contractions. But the thing is, lying down may be the last thing you feel like doing when you’re birthing a baby.

CHASKA, Minn. — (CBS Minnesota) As if giving birth wasn’t stressful enough. “It’s the mom and the baby that run the show,” Emily Birdsall, a mom of four, asserted to WCCO Investigates. “You want to ...

Impressive new research led by a team from the Stanford University School of Medicine has discovered a set of biomarkers that can predict when a pregnant woman will go into labor several weeks in ...