Across the mammal family tree, difficult labor appears far more common than many people have assumed, turning up not just in livestock and pets, but in wild deer, seals, whales, primates, and ...

Human childbirth has long been considered especially risky, owing to upright bodies with large brains moving through narrow birth canals, but it turns out we're no outliers: difficult births are ...

For centuries, childbirth’s pain was explained as punishment; more recently, as the evolutionary price of walking upright and bearing large-brained babies. But if difficult birth occurs across ...

When a woman has difficulties in the second, or pushing, stage of labour, the doctor can use forceps or a vacuum pump to pull the baby through the birth canal. That practice, however, has fallen out ...

Welcoming your baby is an exciting moment, but sometimes complications during delivery can make the first days more stressful. One common concern after a birth is newborn jaundice, which affects ...

Human childbirth is commonly viewed as uniquely difficult and dangerous. The reason: the combination of bipedalism and large brains creates a tight fit between the baby and the birth canal. Research ...