The scientists from the Cochrane Collaboration claim that the woman, who is giving birth, should not lie during the first stage of delivery, because it slows down the process of birth and makes it more painful. Full story

You have surely heard about quite significant changes in the mother's body that take place just a few weeks before the baby is born. So how can you recognize what they mean? Full story

Israeli scientists have found that motherhood so strongly influences a woman's body that it even partially changes some of the brain functions. Full story

It finally happened to Mariah Carey! After a miscarriage and wearying attempts to conceive, after a false alarm on March 27 when she was rushed to the hospital with contractions which didn’t end up in birth, she became a mom – and on the day of her fourth wedding anniversary too! Full story

Today, people often ask themselves why, despite all the advances in modern medicine, so many babies are born dead. Every day in the UK 10 babies are stillborn, and it's almost 4,000 children a year. Full story

Water births as means of labor pain reduction have become very popular lately. Singing is the newest method of labor pain relief. A new theory states that the strength of vocal cords can help reduce labor pain. Full story

Pregnancy has never been a period to give up on your sportive habits (unless, of course, your doctor has explicitly warned you against physical strain or you are bed-ridden). On the contrary, it’s an excellent reason to stay fit and feel lively. Doing exercises will make you feel more energetic due to better blood circulation. Taking care of your body will make your delivery shorter and less strenuous and take you a long way towards a rapid recovery after the childbirth. Full story

Ladies, please stop thinking about never-ending items for carrying during your delivery. Women who have undergone the pressure of pregnancy and childbirth would be able to tell you more about the most important items that you must carry to the hospital during your childbirth. So rather than shipping anything useless in the bag, what should you carry in your bag? Full story

After giving birth, the female brain starts to increase in size whatever the story about its reduction. In fact, the grey matter of the brain begins to grow in volume shortly after a woman gives birth. Full story

Quite a number of people had something to remember the much-talked-of date of 10/10/10 by, but there’s one little girl in Kingstanding, Birmingham, who marked not only the day, but also the time. Full story

It turns out that postpartum depression affects not only mothers but also newly-made fathers of newborns, says the journal Science. Full story

With one year of family life already behind them, Khloe Kardashian, 26, and Lamar Odom, 30, are going strong, and the happy husband celebrated their first anniversary with a vow renewal ceremony. But the happy wife’s life is full of worries. Full story

The 30-year-old Brazilian supermodel, who gave birth to son Benjamin last December and a few months later surprised everybody by publishing bikini photos showing her excellent figure, puts it down to breastfeeding. For Gisele Bundchen breastfeeding is not just what the doctor ordered, it’s something that “should be a worldwide law” for the first six months. Full story

The TLC reality star mom Michelle Duggar, whose show 19 Kids and Counting used to be called 17 Kids and Counting once, wouldn’t mind if one day it will be called 20 Kids and Counting. In fact, she would even welcome it! Full story

Monica Bellucci has recently given birth to daughter in Rome. The father is the actress’ husband Vincent Cassel, also an actor. This is the second child for the couple, their elder daughter, Deva, is five now. Newly born girl was named Leonie. Full story

It’s six months since Adriana Lima gave birth to her daughter, and she is already her last-year shapely self. "It was easy," she shrugged the issue off when talking to UsMagazine at Thursday's 3rd Annual Aerospace High Performance Championships in NYC. Full story

Supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her husband Matthew Vaughan, a film producer, have been blessed with a baby girl. It is their third child since their marriage in 2002. Full story

Amanda Moore - whose rare bone disease makes her the smallest mother in Britain, only 3ft 1ins tall – is experiencing her motherhood oh so differently from other moms! And the first singularity she has to cope with is that her son, Aidan, is fast outgrowing her. Full story

It seems as though we were living inside a science fiction novel these days. People getting face transplants, scientist growing artificial human organs and tissues, and if that's not enough, an American woman gave birth to a set of twins just 16 months after receiving a heart transplant. Full story

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) conception has been found to be greatly affected by such factor as air pollution, as reported in a recent study published in Human Reproduction. Full story

Little Big Town members Karen Fairchild, 42, and Jimi Westbrook, 39, married since 2006, finally got round to giving birth to a child. On March 5, in Nashville, Tenn., their first baby, son named Elijah Dylan Westbrook, saw the light of this world. Full story

Shakespeare in Love and Killing Me Softly star's wife, a Swiss model Maria Dolores Diéguez, gave birth to a baby girl. This is the first child of the couple. The 39-year-old Joseph and 27 year-old Maria, who met at a film festival in Italy, got married on ... Full story

Stinne Holm Bergholdt of Odense, Denmark, became the first woman in the world to give birth to two children after undergoing an ovary transplant, the Human Reproduction informed us last week. Full story

A study of pomegranate health benefits by the researchers at the Heidelberg University in Germany has surprisingly revealed pomegranate contains special substances that could help women giving birth. Full story

Older women face greater risk to have a child with autism. The same is true with men with the only difference that the child's mother is younger than 30, according to American scientists. Full story