Parents-to-be want their babies to be born as healthy and happy as possible. One pregnancy method is getting safer, which could enable more parents to make sure that happens.

Depression can take all the fun out of being a new mother. Researchers are trying to find better ways to diagnose the problem early.

An ingredient in your breakfast cereal may be preventing birth defects all across the US.

Giving birth is hard enough, so why add a surgery to the mix? A surgery once common during childbirth may be going extinct for routine births.

Why have major surgery when a less intensive treatment option might do the trick? This complex question might be one women and their doctors need to discuss.

Women struggling to become pregnant have a lot of factors to consider, but now they may have one less thing to worry about: the safety of procedures that help them get pregnant.

Hormones yes, hormones no — the recommendations for menopausal women have swung back and forth in the last 10 years.

Hot flashes and night sweats could be more than just unpleasant symptoms of menopause — they could be tied to bone health.

Birth announcements and baby shower invitations may not be as common as they once were in US mailboxes. The US hasn't been in a baby boom for a few years, and last year saw a particularly low birth rate.