South Africa has been placed at the bottom of global maternity leave rankings alongside the US, Papua New Guinea and Tonga. This is according to the Global Maternity Leave Report 2025 by UK-based ...

I'm a mom with 15+ years of experience covering health and science. One of my big regrets from the first time I was pregnant is that I didn’t buy myself a good pair of maternity leggings. I struggled ...

An NHS trust at the centre of concerns over its poor maternity services has had to repay almost £5m after wrongly claiming it provided safe care to mothers and their babies. Leeds Teaching Hospitals ...

The fallout of the war has led to one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, but aid to its victims is vanishing. Pregnant women’s lives are in the balance. Nancy Symgambaye measuring Taiba ...

Why has the government excluded some of the worst-performing hospital units from its investigation? By Hannah Barnes When the Health Secretary Wes Streeting announced an investigation into England’s ...

A Surrey hospital has seen a considerable improvement in it's maternity services, according to a recently released report published by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Bosses at the trust said they ...

Another four cases of measles have been confirmed in Cairns, bringing the outbreak total to seven. Queensland Health workers have been confirmed among the infected cases. The Cairns Hospital has ...

Planning for the arrival of a baby involves many complex choices. Among these is deciding how long the mother will take off work to recover from childbirth and care for her newborn full-time. For many ...

Labour MP Ramona Attard has called for a discussion on whether to increase maternity leave amid concerns over Malta's low fertility rate. The backbencher, who sits on parliament's health committee, ...

It was the middle of the night on April 2, 2024, when Teela Banister went into labor. She and her husband raced out the door of their rural home on the outskirts of Baker City in eastern Oregon, ...

Leah had a positive experience giving birth at the QE Hospital and said being local made the whole process 'less daunting' Women with experience of maternity care at a Norfolk hospital that is part of ...

A British mother revealed she was called 'crazy' for using her six-month maternity leave to backpack across the world with her newborn. Esther Draycott, 31, from Nottingham, decided she wanted more ...