Birth
The new trend capturing delivery rooms in Israel
More and more laboring women are choosing to enter the pool instead of the delivery bed, and Assuta Ashdod Hospital reports a surge in demand. How safe is this procedure?
Vietnam targets natural birth sex ratio by 2035 with crackdown on fetal sex selection
It's a boy! JD Vance and wife Usha celebrate birth of fourth child
Mojtaba Khamenei pushes for baby boom as regime braces for incoming population crisis
A baby in Brazil was born with a 12 cm tail with 4 cm-thick ball of skin
Doctors in Brazil were stunned when a baby was born with a 12-centimeter tail equipped with a 4-centimeter-thick ball of skin, but they removed it.
This baby was born weighing 7 kilograms
This 7-kilogram baby was born in Brazil via C-section after doctors realized the mother couldn't carry it to term. Now he's too big for typical newborn clothes and diapers.
Prenatal alcohol consumption can change your baby's face shape - study
Changes in face shape were seen even in cases where the amount of alcohol consumed was less than a small glass of wine or a bottle of beer.
Israeli midwives stretched too thin, assist multiple births at once
A close and supportive midwifery team can reduce the need for interventions in childbirth and reduce the necessity of cesarean section and instrumental deliveries.
Two men in Canada seek compensation after they discover they were switched at birth
The men, Edward Ambrose and Richard Beauvais, found out they had been switched at birth more than 60 years ago.
A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing
Doctors were stunned when a baby in rural Mexico was born with a "true tail" 5.7 centimeters long – a case that's one in a million.
Hospital moves Arab woman after Jewish woman refuses to share room
The Arab-Israeli couple, residents of Nazareth, made an attempt to convince the Jewish woman to let them stay in the room before finally giving up.
I am a single rabbi without children. I shouldn’t be made to feel I am not ‘doing my part’
We should celebrate the role and value of an individual within a community with no correlation to the number of children they raise.
Lower grades in high school may be linked to being born prematurely - study
Researchers analyzed data of siblings born in Denmark between 1986 and 2003 in the study, of which 1.2 million were born during this period, of which nearly 800 thousand had at least one sibling.
COVID increases risk of maternal death - study
Pregnant people who get COVID at any stage are not only at a greater risk for maternal death, but they also are more likely to need care in an ICU.
