Rep. Robin Kelly of Illinois introduced a new bill this week to improve maternal health after the video of Mercedes Wells ...

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Wells was hospitalized with post-birth issues. Her brother-in-law, Lance Thompson, told ...

A TikTok shows Black woman Karrie Jones in active labor and crying out in pain while a white nurse at Dallas Regional Medical ...

Indiana mother Mercedes Wells was turned away by hospital staff as she sought help while actively in labor, and the doctor ...

It was really a horrific situation to be treated like a dog, or not even like a dog, like less than,” mother Mercedes Wells ...

One new mother recently shared her experience of a family falling out on Reddit, just weeks after giving birth. The woman, 22 ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

Giving birth is no laughing matter, but the gas seems to help. Kate McGovern, a nurse educator and midwife at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Mass., demonstrates the equipment that delivers ...

Fifty-four women and their families sued county jails alleging dangerous conditions behind bars. These are their stories.