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Your first prenatal care visit takes place when you are 8–10 weeks pregnant. This initial visit typically takes 40 minutes. You will see either a midwife or women’s health nurse practitioner during ...

Suze Lopez, 41, from Bakersfield, gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Ryu after discovering her pregnancy just days before ...

Benzodiazepine use during pregnancy is associated with a 20% higher risk for preterm birth and a 6% increased risk for small ...

A California woman was scheduled to have a large cyst removed but, in the lead-up to the procedure, learned she had a rare ...

Pregnant people who receive a COVID vaccine are 60 percent less likely to experience severe disease and around 30 percent ...

Abortion is a procedure to terminate a pregnancy. Birth control and emergency contraception do not end a pregnancy — they prevent a pregnancy from occurring in the first place. Birth control pills and ...

While prenatal screening and diagnostic tests detect most birth defects, there are many conditions that simply can’t be diagnosed during pregnancy because of the nature of the condition. Share on ...

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Pregnancy may accelerate biological aging in women who have never given birth by up to 5.3 years, according to a new study.

Their shared pregnancy journey was so similar, it came with the same serious medical diagnosis. But a new campaign at ...