C-section moms are some of the bravest and strongest women we know. In the moments leading up to surgery, a C-section mother must hold onto the strong and fierce love she has for her baby. She lets ...

A 22-year-old Mexican migrant living in Chicago was arrested by ICE, just days after she had given birth to her daughter, who ...

As a birth photographer, I’m asked to capture some of the most important stories of a family’s life. I step into their birthing space and document the small and big moments that unfold. I tell the ...

Newborn photographer aims to take fear and stigma away from the procedure. Photographer Jessica Bender photographed the birth of her friend's son via c-section. She hopes that by sharing the photos ...

Jessica Bender is a photographer who specializes in maternity, newborn, children, and family shoots, but she was recently given a very special opportunity to photograph a C-section birth. During a ...

There's no correct way to give birth. Whether you opt for a cesarean section, forgo drugs, or go the home birth route, every birth is unique and special in its own right. Still, one mom was left ...

After giving birth, women often struggle with reduced sexual desire and arousal, but how they delivered – by cesarean or vaginally – is not to blame, a small study suggests. Women in the study were ...

A man in Australia sued the hospital where he watched his wife deliver a baby via cesarean-section birth in 2018, claiming it caused him a “psychotic illness.” New dad Anil Koppula filed the lawsuit ...

Women with low-risk pregnancies who are trying to avoid caesarean sections often overlook the C-section rate of the hospital where they plan to give birth, new research shows. The research, published ...

Your very first moments of life can influence your risk of obesity for years, a new study shows. Babies delivered via caesarean section were 15% more likely to be obese as kids, teens and young adults ...

Editor's note: This story was first published on April 30, 2018. For Hayley Nanasi, a mom who delivered her daughter via cesarean section, childbirth was a "whirlwind" that may not have gone as ...

Childbirth may be a perfectly natural process, but it's not a harmless one. Around the world, some 500,000 women die from pregnancy complications each year. Though maternal death is mercifully rare in ...