UnityPoint Health–Trinity is pausing its labor and delivery services Feb. 7 at its hospital in Muscatine, Iowa, in part because it is struggling to recruit and retain OB-GYN physicians. UnityPoint ...

The early stages of labor can be filled with a range of emotions for expecting mothers including pain and uncertainty. Preparing yourself for the unexpected — to the best of your ability — ...

At 2 years old, my nephew is nothing but adorable. But when he was ten days past his original mid-June due date, my sister had some other choice words to describe him. She loved being pregnant, but ...

Compared with expectant management, inducing labor at 39 weeks’ gestation may be cost-effective for nulliparas with unfavorable cervical exams, according to data published in the American Journal of ...

LAURENS, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Prisma Health is shifting labor and deliveries from Laurens County Hospital to another hospital campus in the Upstate while they deal with a shortage of OB/GYN ...

It was Dr. Lexi Achenbach’s first night on call at Good Samaritan Hospital, and it was raining, hard. Tropical Storm Lee was blowing through the midstate, flooding homes, drowning zoo animals and ...

You're past your due date and desperate to get this baby out of you. You want to be safe, of course, but you've heard enough stories about how people have naturally induced labor at home — "My mom ate ...

Emily Jacobs, MD, an OB/GYN resident at Iowa City-based University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, was in the midst of delivering a patient’s baby July 28 when she realized she was going into early ...

Odessa Regional Medical Center recently announced that it has been recognized by Healthgrades as a 2022 recipient of their distinguished Obstetrics and Gynecology Excellence Award and Labor and ...