Major depression fluctuates during and after pregnancy but has the highest prevalence two weeks after giving birth, a ...

The placenta contracts independently of the rest of the uterine wall, as seen in around 60% of 36 MRI-scanned healthy ...

Women with chronic hypertension whose fetuses have lower estimated fetal weight and fetal growth restriction at 35-36 weeks’ gestation are more likely to develop superimposed preeclampsia.

A woman says she is 9 weeks overdue, and the situation quickly raises questions that feel almost impossible to believe. What begins as a shocking pregnancy claim turns into a closer look at how ...

The biological connection between a pregnant woman and her developing baby—the human maternal–fetal interface—is a specialized, transient organ composed of uterine cells from the mother and fetal ...