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Traditional midwives in the Amazon rainforest, like Dona Dorca and Dona Ilda, play a crucial role in assisting childbirth, relying on ancestral knowledge to support young mothers.
Shola, a 49-year-old woman, gives birth to triplets at Queen's Hospital in Romford, where more than 50% of first-time mothers are over 30.
Geoffrey Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales, described 14th-century luxury with a featherbed adorned in gold and fine black satin.
Families of victims from the Nottingham hospital maternity ward failures hold a press conference to address the findings of the inquiry report.
NHS teams in four British hospitals address a range of medical challenges, including a difficult labor complicated by Group B Strep and a child with a head injury.
Former midwife Donna Ockendon delivers a speech addressing the findings of a maternity care review, highlighting critical issues in healthcare practices.
Ayo Odukoya recalls a moment when he arrived too late to save a woman, questioning his efforts as a blood deliveryman in Lagos, Nigeria.
A woman recounts her experience with female genital mutilation at three years old in America.
One in three births in the United States is now delivered by Cesarean section, making it the most common major surgery in the country.
In Gaza's al-Shifa maternity ward, pregnant women face dire conditions and lack of medical care while giving birth amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes.
Japan faces a loneliness epidemic as young people choose single life over marriage and relationships.
One midwife in Berlin cares for four to five women at once, as hospitals close delivery rooms and many midwives leave the profession.
Mansour Mahsoom and Najiba Qureishi educate on contraception to reduce maternal deaths in Afghanistan.
More than 300,000 women die in childbirth every year, mostly in poorer countries and war zones.
The pay gap between men and women narrows, but remains unchanged for degree holders.
