It might seem that if there is no pain, there is no problem. However, doctors insist that pain is necessary: it forces a woman to complete the process of birth – to strive to end it with the birth of a baby. If there is no pain, there is no desire to make an effort. Full story

A British midwife had to deliver without assistance. The birth of her child began three weeks before the scheduled time. The incident occurred with Claire Clarke-Wood, a worker of Croydon University Hospital. Full story

What Beyoncé certainly did was set the whole Internet raving. First she managed to set a Twitter world record last summer when the mark reached 8,868 TPS (tweets per second) upon the singer’s pregnancy announcement at the MTV Video Music Awards. Full story

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

Lily Allen has done it! She has long been waiting to become a mom, and now she is! Full story

On November 15, a 10-year-old mother gave birth to a baby weighing 1.5 kg after 31 weeks of pregnancy. The girl had taken to hospital with contractions and potential life-threatening complications. The girl gave birth to the baby via a cesarean section. Full story

Clearly Amber Miller, 27, didn’t consider her pregnancy a good enough reason not to participate in a marathon race – and may have even found it to be an additional stimulation to win. The fact that she was 39 weeks into pregnancy proved no deterrent either. Full story

Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the First Lady of France, has given birth, as reported by Le Figaro. The illustrious event occurred on Wednesday in Paris; Bruni-Sarkozy was taken to the Clinique de la Muette in the morning and delivered at about 8 p.m. It’s a girl, and the first child born to a French ruling man for almost two centuries - since Napoleon! Full story

When it came to giving birth to her first child, Evangeline Lilly knew what she wanted – and got it even if it meant eight hours of ongoing labor! Full story

In one of the British hospitals, there has been recently born a premature baby. Its mother rejected the doctors' advice to have an abortion and decided to give birth to the baby, but the delivery began four months earlier. The scientists claim that a woman was incredibly lucky to have her baby alive. Full story

Evangeline Lilly of the Lost cast and her recently augmented family turned up at the Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday. Lilly’s son with boyfriend Norman Kali is only two months old, but the actress is back into the shape with no hint at a recent pregnancy on her waistline. She was brisk as a bee in a button-up blouse, a skirt on a belt and brown boots. Having stowed away their baggage into a car she, her production assistant boyfriend and their son got on their way. Lilly hasn’t revealed the boy’s name yet. Full story

The scientists discovered that women, who had had a miscarriage, could get a real chance to give birth to a healthy baby without endangering their health and the life of the still unborn child. Full story

Kate Hudson waited until the last moment - and was proved wrong in her assumptions. She had chosen not to know the sex of the oncoming baby, but something had told her that she would have a girl. Then she came and actually delivered a boy! Full story

Marion Cotillard is certainly to be credited with a small physical wonder! The Nine star is only two weeks past giving birth to son Marcel, yet she is active and vigorous, strutting about Paris displaying an excellent almost unbelievably slim figure. Full story

A very rare case in medical practice has occurred in a clinic in the U.S. state of Arizona. Ectopic pregnancy has ended up with a birth of a completely healthy child. Full story

Runway and advertising model Eva Herzigová is now mother of two sons! Full story

December was marked by a festive occasion for the royal family of Great Britain, when a baby girl was born to Peter Phillips and his wife Autumn. Full story

Psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics published the results of his latest study. His findings report that attractive people tend to have girls, while ''average-looking'' people tend to have boys. Full story

It is not a secret that in this era of women's emancipation birthrate in developed countries has significantly decreased. Moreover, the number of pregnancies in the late period of productivity, when a woman is in her late thirties or even in early forties, has increased. However, a woman's ''biological clock'' is not directly related to her age. Full story

The famous designer Stella McCartney could get the title “most prolific designer”. The point is that Stella is not only timely launching fashion collections, but also with enviable regularity giving birth. Full story

The way this unborn baby was kicking and twisting inside the mother makes one think of an alien fetus that means to get outside right through her stomach wall – or so it seems when one watches this one and half minute clip showing a French woman who is about to give birth undergoing a bout of stomach-quake.... Full story

Grammy nominated R&B singer Ne-Yo will probably be less glad if he gets the Grammy than he is now - for his girlfriend Monyetta Shaw gave birth to his first child! All Hip Hop News offers the first reports of the joyous event. Full story

A report from an official in Madrid says that a ten-year-old girl delivered a baby in the South of Spain. Full story

2 weeks ago, the Quebec singing superstar Celine Dion successfully gave birth to two boys, although the singer was actually expecting triplets - one child died during pregnancy. Let’s recall that Dion became pregnant through IVF, this is why she was expecting three at once. Full story

The famous transgender man Thomas Beatie, who marked a new epoch back in 2008 when he gave birth to a baby, doesn’t mean to stop! And now he gave birth to his third baby for the past two years! Full story