When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

The American birthrate has fallen to its lowest rate in history. This has caused consternation in the political class: A falling rate can eventually lead to too few workers to sup ...

The nation’s birthrate — that is, the number of live births per 1,000 people in a given year — is down by more than 25 ...

Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...

New moms — human or cat — are never too exhausted to show off how proud they are of their babies, though, and that includes ...

For years, debates about maternity care have centred on how women give birth. But the more important question has always been safety. Vaginal birth, assisted birth and caesarean s ...

Transgender people living in Kansas have been ordered to hand back their driver’s licenses if they do not reflect their assigned-sex-at-birth, under a new law. At such a critical moment in US history, ...

"There are no words to say thank you enough to my donor and her family," Grace Bell said after welcoming baby Hugo in ...

The difficulties that blight pugs and French bulldogs are common in other breeds. However, flat-faced canines trigger strong emotional feelings because they resemble human babies.

A young woman was giving birth to her second baby when midwives made a startling discovery. Now, she has months to live. When ...

I feel sure that a greater wealth of honest, detailed, candid descriptions of birth would make us less susceptible to those ...