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The rise in the rate of medically assisted births in the UK, particularly caesareans, is laid firmly at the feet of women for being older, larger…

More than half of women having a baby in Britain now do so with the help of medical intervention, an audit of NHS maternity care has…

Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government’s first…

Growing numbers of women in the UK are dying during pregnancy or soon after giving birth, even though fewer babies are being born, official figures show.While…

Eight Healthy Children Born Using Three-Person IVF TechniqueLong-awaited results of a three-person IVF technique suggest that mitochondrial donation can prevent babies from inheriting diseases caused by…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.One of Japan’s largest producers of baby food…

An increase in babies born to fathers over 60 helped trigger the first increase in the number of births in England and Wales since 2021.Data from…

There was nothing about giving birth that didn’t feel personal, from the agony of my 30-hour induced labour to my eventual journey to the operating theatre…