20th July 2016
In some parts of Mexico, adolescents routinely find themselves rushed into parenthood To some, they are ‘runaway brides’ eloping in search of adventure and a new life. To others, they are children pressured into motherhood long before they are mature ...
23rd June 2016
Dawlen Tirkey, a nurse who had just delivered a baby girl, was one of 45,000 Indian mothers to die after childbirth last year. In India, and elsewhere, the infant mortality numbers are even higher – but it doesn’t have to be ...
20th April 2016
In the small island nation of Sri Lanka, a midwifery training program founded in the 1880s by a revered native entrepreneur has evolved into a community health program that has taken maternal and infant mortality rates close to rich-country levels, ...
7th March 2016
Doctors gave Hope Rollings a 10-20% chance of survival even before she was born. Today, the lively toddler is about to celebrate her 3rd birthday, thanks to life-saving surgery she had while still in the womb. At her 20-week scan, ...
2nd March 2016
If you have fever, rash, joint pain, headache and fatigue, it could be flu, dengue fever or chikungunya. Or it could be Zika virus. The trouble is it can take weeks to find out for sure. For pregnant women in ...
14th January 2016
Doctors gave Reggie a 20% chance of survival when he was born early at 23 weeks, weighing just over a kilogram. Though Danielle Stoakes and Matt Hansom were excited about becoming parents for the first time, they were also scared. Their son ...
7th January 2016
After two years of trying, Noemi Denish was ecstatic to be pregnant with her first child. But 10 weeks into the pregnancy, she lost the baby. Noemi and her husband were devastated but more determined than ever to have a baby. ...
15th December 2015
It looks like a makeshift wetsuit, but it’s not for surfers. The so-called non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) uses the power of compression to stop women from bleeding to death in childbirth. It’s really that simple. The NASG was ...
13th November 2015
The joy that Becky Concannon felt when she got pregnant with her two daughters was quickly overshadowed with guilt and fear when she learned she had gestational diabetes. Though the condition affects 18% of pregnancies, many people haven’t heard of ...
10th September 2015
After 54 hours of labour, Jenny Rose Ryan was exhausted. Cradling her baby boy, she began to relax for the first time in more than two days. But this, believe it or not, was just the beginning her epic story. "Before ...