So there we were at the end of a journey and the beginning of a lifetime. These past nine months have been the longest, shortest, most confounding emotional roller coaster since... well, probably since the first time round...

Childcare is more likely to be divided more equitably between parents too. Many of our mums commented that their partners are more involved than their dads were when they were growing up - and others noted that the shift towards greater sharing of the baby care workload is inevitable, given that most mums (as dads) are juggling parenthood with a career.

Childbirth is not a rite of passage. We are not cave men. We have choices. Men do not have to hunt and women do not have to gather berries and breed children. Just because our bodies are built to do something, does not mean we have to pump out children and slay wildlife.

Today, the Government relaunches its Start4Life (little sister of the Change4Life) campaign to help mothers-to-be have healthier pregnancies. And it is definitely 'mothers' they're out to educate.

President Obama’s announcement that ‘health plans will be required to cover maternity care’ during the first National Women’s Health Week in A...

I woke this morning with a feverish compulsion to write about leggings, maternity leggings to be specific. Though the slant was veering towards the po...

Mothers who have caesarean sections are more likely to have overweight babies compared to women who give birth naturally, research reveals. Scienti...

What really winds me up is the smugness of mothers who give birth naturally and seem to think if you have had a C-section you somehow opted out. It's not the case. I don't believe anyone would rather have an extra five days in hospital and be sliced open.

First of all let me apologise. It has been some time since I last blogged but I have been the victim of a delicious whirlwind. Everyone in my family has. On the 27th September - after a tricky birth - my youngest son was born.

An increased number of women are paying to opt out of the NHS and have their babies delivered by private midwives at home....

A “worrying” number of mothers are dying during pregnancy and childbirth in Britain because women are having babies later and receive substandard ...