The third trimester of pregnancy is a time for preparation and calm. Gentle prenatal yoga poses like Baddha Konasana, Malasana, and Utkata Konasana relieve discomfort, strengthen the body, and promote ...

Forty-one percent of moms said pregnancy did not go as planned, according to new research. The survey of 2,000 American moms looked at their experience while pregnant and found that 39% created a game ...

Positive pregnancy affirmations can help you maintain and reinvigorate your faith in your body and help you feel more confident about giving birth. Affirmations are statements that you use ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

HOW TO TAKE THE POST-TEST: Click here after reading the article to take the post-test on myCME.com. Up to 25% of all women in the early stages of pregnancy will experience vaginal bleeding or spotting ...

Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

Share on Pinterest Researchers are expressing caution about the use of Tylenol during the later stages of pregnancy. nSolStock/Getty Images Acetaminophen use in the second and third trimester of ...

In the setting of incomplete abortion, watchful waiting is 90% effective. 3 In a pregnancy of unknown location—defined as a pregnancy too early to be visualized, a positive pregnancy test, and no ...