Amniocentesis - Any thoughts on this pregnancy test (which we erroneously described as a 'condition', apologies for which), asked a reader last time.

Amniocentesis was not such a bad deal - Recently, my daughter had a slightly problematic reading in her blood and was advised to have an amniocentesis. I was very worried because of what I h...

Letting mothers lead - What do mothers want from midwives? Over the years, I have been privileged to listen to many mothers. No matter what their age or experience most wan...

Low-iron mums: bigger babies - Perhaps Mother Nature got it right after all. It seems pregnant women are supposed to become anemic in order to give birth to large, healthy babies. ....

Torn up by the big return - During the second trimester of my second pregnancy, seven of us formed an independent pregnancy group, with no agenda but ourselves, our pregnant feel...

Vitamins help healthy babies - Yet more evidence has emerged of the importance of women's nutrition in their having healthy babies. ...

Ultrasound scans: small babies - Frequent prenatal ultrasound exposure could restrict fetal growth by a third. ...

The scandal of the benzo babies - We hear so much about medical blunders that it seems unbelievable that a scandal involving more than one million children in the UK alone has been goi...