NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pregnant women who have a cesarean delivery appear to be more likely to suffer a stroke during the following year than women who give birth normally, researchers in Taiwan have shown.

As reported today in an article by Gardiner Harris in the New York Times, "about 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed their infants at least briefly, the highest rate seen in the United States in more than a decade, according to a government survey released on Wednesday."

According to the New York Times, the Canadian government moved on Friday, April 18, 2008, to ban polycarbonate infant bottles, the most popular variety on the market, after it officially declared one of their chemical ingredients toxic.

This is the question posed by Judith Rooks, CNM, MS, MPH, a well-known midwifery author, epidemiologist, and researcher.

Funny drawings showing you the right and wrong way to take care of baby.

TENS - a method of labor relief common in the U.K. but little known in the U.S., can act as a block to pain messages to the brain, and also cause the body to release natural endorphins.

If you have considered an out-of-hospital birth center, you may want to learn more about them.

Laboring women, midwives, nurses and doulas all have reasons to hate the dreaded persistent OP position of the fetal head.

As an expectant mother approaching your due date, a concern that looms large in your mind is the pain that you will experience during labor. Will you be able to cope?

Babies should move at least 10 times every 12 hours. Most babies move much more often than that. Some even move hundreds of times each day.