Brianna Mckenzie was feverish and shaking in her bed as night drew near at MLK Community Hospital. The pregnant woman was a week and a half past her due date. She had come to the Willowbrook hospital ...

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What Do Labor and Delivery Nurses Do? Labor and delivery nurses have a wide range of responsibilities. They typically care for multiple pregnant, laboring, or postpartum patients at one time. Labor ...

Childbirth can be a special time that you want to remember, and for some, it's important to have photos of the moment your baby enters the world. But for one woman, asking her sister to record labor ...

Read full article: Maternal deaths are 3 times higher in Black women, doctors say There are very few symptoms of high blood pressure, which is why it’s referred to as the “silent killer,” but there ...

As women who have gone through childbirth know, labor contractions and the birth process are typically painful. But women have been giving birth for centuries without pain medication. There are ...