The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a multimillion-dollar business that promotes an extreme version of free birth, meaning women giving birth without medical assistance. The Guardian can now reveal that ...

HONG KONG, Dec 15 (Reuters) - China will cover all out-of-pocket expenses related to childbirth next year, said the country's national healthcare security administration, as authorities try to ...

Social media influencer Pyari Maryam has died after giving birth to twin boys. Her husband, Ahsan Ali, shared news of her death via her Instagram Stories on Thursday, December 4. “Indeed, to Allah we ...

China will expand its national healthcare insurance programme next year to fully cover all out-of-pocket expenses related to childbirth, according to state media reports. It is the country’s latest ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/Gray News) - An Alaskan couple welcomed the newest addition to their family in a way they did not anticipate. The newborn arrived feet-first. “Right before he came out, he ...

In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian podcast, The Birth Keepers, explores how a global network promoting unassisted childbirth has shaped women’s decisions around childbirth. One mother’s story ...

The health ministry is moving to standardize childbirth costs nationwide as part of efforts to make giving birth entirely free of charge and eliminate existing inequalities. Currently, delivery fees ...

The health ministry proposed Thursday that the cost of child delivery be fully covered by public health insurance. The proposal was presented to the Social Security Council's medical insurance ...

GOMA, Congo — In a maternity ward in eastern Congo, Irene Nabudeba rested her hands on her bulging midsection, worried about giving birth in a city under rebel control. The conflict that flared this ...

Pyari Maryam, who has nearly 150,000 followers on Instagram, was known for her heartfelt and engaging content Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Physicians throughout history thought postpartum depression could be resolved by rebalancing a woman’s bile or through punitive “rest cures.” Physicians have recorded symptoms of postpartum depression ...