Every year the rate of delivering a baby via surgery continues to climb and is far above the ideal rate put forward by the World Health Organization.

Accessing an Indigenous midwife in Canada today is nearly impossible, according to Carol Couchie, an Indigenous midwife and co-chair of the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives.

A new study estimates that three infants die of war-related causes for every direct combat death in Africa.

When women are pregnant, they typically gain weight. But that wasn't the case for one Edmonton mother, who was so ill with hyperemisis, she had to spend five months in the hospital.

Some of the findings are raising questions about the health of pregnant women in the province and on the level of care that moms and newborns receive after birth.

A growing number of hospitals in Canada are becoming "baby friendly," a designation developed by the World Health Organization and brought to Canada by The Breastfeeding Committee for Canada. 

University of Calgary research is highlighting the importance of screening woman for depression during pregnancy after finding that left untreated, depression during and after pregnancy can alter a child's brain.

Doctors in Tennessee are celebrating a medical "coup" after delivering twins 38 days apart.

Nunavut has by far the highest rate of infant death in Canada - and it's gotten higher.

A new report from Plan Canada highlights how millions of girls in developing countries are robbed of their power through child, early and forced marriages.