Despite being 34 weeks pregnant, Alysia Montano ran the 800m on Thursday in the US Track and Field Championships.
The five-time national champion finished in 2min 32.13sec in the qualifying rounds, only seven weeks before shes scheduled to give birth to her first child.
In a country where contraception and abortion are illegal, smuggled test kits are allowing women to make more informed decisions about their pregnancies. Daily NK reports
Sales of pregnancy testing kits are rising in border regions of North Korea, Daily NK has learned.
Contraception and abortion are both illegal in North Korea. In North Korea's patriarchal society, use of such kits had long been limited, but the desire to take control of pregnancies in recent years has seen an increase in their popularity, according to sources inside the country.
The number of diagnosed cases of foetal alcohol syndrome in those born to women who drink during pregnancy has tripled since records of the debilitating condition were first kept 16 years ago.
In 2012-2013 there were 252 diagnoses of the syndrome, which can leave victims severely mentally and physically impaired, compared with 89 in 1997-98. Cases are up 37% since 2009-2010, Of those diagnosed in 2012-2013, the last year for which records are available, two out of five were aged one or under, according to the government's health and social care information centre.
Three women requested abortions due to harsh conditions in detention and the longevity of stay on the Pacific island
Three pregnant asylum seekers have been transferred to Australia from offshore detention on Nauru after requesting abortions due to the harsh conditions inside the detention centre and because they did not want to bring a child up on Nauru, Guardian Australia understands.
Of the three women the first of whom was transferred in February one had her pregnancy terminated while the other two have yet to make a final decision on the termination.
A warning has been issued about using a type of heated birthing pool at home after a baby born in one was infected with legionnaires' disease.
Public Health England and NHS England are temporarily advising people against using the pools, which have built-in heaters and recirculation pumps. The pools can be filled with water in advance of the birth, perhaps up to two weeks earlier.
A woman who achieved notoriety by agreeing to act as a surrogate mother for one of Osama bin Laden's sons has been jailed for faking pregnancies to trick desperate prospective parents out of thousands of pounds.
Louise Pollard, 28, from Plymouth, pretended to inseminate herself before telling couples that she was expecting their child but would then "milk" her victims by saying she needed money to maintain her car or had fallen behind on her rent. Bristol crown court was told Pollard's scam was uncovered when a pregnancy confirmation letter she sent to one of the couples was found to be a forgery. Pollard was jailed for three years and four months for fraud by false representation.
Natural not always safe, warn experts, as study shows 90% of pregnant Australian women use complementary treatments
Doctors are urging pregnant Australian women to tell them about their use of complementary and alternative therapies after a new study found 90% are using such treatments, often on the advice of their friends and families.
Using data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Womens Health pregnancy sub-survey of more than 1,800 women, researchers found almost half consulted a complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioner and almost 90% used a CAM product during pregnancy. More than 40% were influenced to do so by family and friends, while about half were influenced by their own use of CAM in the past.
Government will not specify exemptions for pregnancy in its welfare reforms
Unemployed pregnant women may go months without income support under proposed changes to Australias welfare system.
The government has refused to specify exemptions for pregnant women in their reforms which will see people under 30 go six months at a time without income support.
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Modern mothers have so much information to process and expectations to conform to that it can result in unnecessary stress. But could parenting be one of those rare things where an old-fashioned approach could actually be better than the modern one?
Ive just survived my first year of motherhood. And I love it, its the best thing ever, life has so much more meaning, etc. But lets get to the harder stuff: nothing could have prepared me for the relentlessness of being so needed, for the immeasurable weight of being so crucial to the very survival of a helpless human being. Sleepless nights, hectic days, and this weird stickiness that just ends up on everything.
Despite being madly in love with my baby daughter, sometimes I couldnt help but feel like a hostage. When other parents say I cant remember life without em! I think they must have concussion. Really? You cant remember carefree nights out and actually needing an alarm to get up in the morning? Freely using the toilet because you havent got a sleeping infant slung across your body? Not smelling of vomit? In my darkest moments it felt the only difference between motherhood and Stockholm Syndrome was the size of the captor.
Mothers should wait at least 18 months after giving birth before having another child in case their next baby arrives dangerously early, experts say.
Research has found that women who give birth again within 18 months of having a baby, especially within a year, are much more likely to have a very premature child and are also running a higher risk of having a child with a birth defect or childhood behavioural problems.
Research on children in Denmark has found that boys with autism were more likely to have been exposed to higher levels of hormones in their mother's wombs than those who developed normally.
Boys diagnosed with autism and related disorders had, on average, raised levels of testosterone, cortisol and other hormones in the womb, according to analyses of amniotic fluid that was stored after their mothers had medical tests during pregnancy.
