Pregnancy

Fewer than half of rural hospitals have labor and delivery units and the number keeps dropping. It’s forcing pregnant women to travel longer distances for care.

For years now, D.C. resident Chantil Thomas has dreamed of having a baby. She has endometriosis, which can make it difficult to get pregnant. Soon, she and others who live or work in D.C. will have more options. Congress just approved a new D.C. law that will require health insurers to cover in vitro fertilization treatment. D.C. Council Member...

A new D.C. law will help ease some of the costs of treating infertility. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police detective after she was falsely arrested because of facial recognition technology while she was eight months pregnant, according to court documents.

Federal health officials have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of new mothers in the U.S. each year.

“It’s so unnecessarily and unbelievably cruel.”

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which takes effect Tuesday, requires employers to make “reasonable accommodations” for pregnant and postpartum people.

It’s a baby boom at one Virginia hospital where 12 NICU employees were all pregnant at once.

The influencer underwent brain surgery and an emergency C-section at the same time after an aneurysm ruptured, according to her family.

After experiencing two pregnancy losses, Maya Vander has welcomed another baby with her husband David Miller.

Connecticut is one of 17 states that brought the case to protect the abortion medication after conflicting court rulings over its legality.

The Food and Drug Administration is ordering an unproven drug intended to prevent premature births off the market.

A hospital in Sandpoint, Idaho is ending labor and delivery services, citing staffing issues and the state’s “legal and political climate.”

A new study is reassuring for women who are taking hormone-blocking pills after a breast cancer diagnosis and want to become pregnant.

The “Nope” actress addressed her social media fans with an unveiling of her pregnant belly on the famous Studio 8H stage, saying, “I’m especially glad to be here though, because, there’s some rumors going around.”

COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims.

Results from a 1,700-patient international study in 2019 showed the drug neither reduced premature births — as originally thought — nor resulted in healthier outcomes for infants.

Elizabeth O’Donnell knows the pain of grieving a stillbirth or infant loss, so she founded a nonprofit to ease others’ heartache. She’s also advocating for federal bills aiming to end preventable stillbirths. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports.

The “Flight Attendant” star, 36, announced Oct. 11 on Instagram that she is expecting her first child, a baby girl, with her boyfriend, “Ozark” actor Tom Pelphrey. 

For some, an epidural or other medications feel like too much. Nitrous oxide can help them.