Pregnancy

New research out of Northwestern University could be a first step to answering the many questions that persist about how contracting the coronavirus during pregnancy affect mother and baby. The small study followed 16 women who tested positive for COVID-19 and gave birth between late March and early May at Northwestern’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Looking at the placenta, it found that these mothers “were...

Access Hollywood shares updates on famous expecting moms, including Katy Perry, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Ciara, Gigi Hadid, Lea Michele and Sophie Turner, as well as busy new parents like Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith.

The coronavirus pandemic has prompted many pregnant women to consider home births to avoid hospitals and other expectant moms ill with COVID-19 in the labor and delivery ward. Indeed, a startling analysis of universal test results at two New York City hospitals last month found about 13% of women who showed up to have a baby were coronavirus positive, even though they felt...

Gigi Hadid opens up to Jimmy Fallon about experiencing her first pregnancy in quarantine and why she sobbed uncontrollably when she received a surprise birthday cake from Buddy Valastro.

Angela Primachenko was 33 weeks pregnant when she was tested for COVID-19 on March 24 because she had a fever and other symptoms. Eight days later, the 27-year-old respiratory therapist from Vancouver, Washington, was fighting for her life on a ventilator while in a medically induced coma. At the same time, she gave birth to her daughter after doctors at Legacy Salmon Creek...

Ashley Duque, her husband Diego Duque and their 2-year-old daughter Ana have been looking forward to welcoming another member to their family. Everything was going well until three weeks ago, when Ashley Duque tested positive for the coronavirus at about 15 weeks pregnant. Initially, she was sent home to self-isolate, but a week into her diagnosis she still wasn’t better….

Dr. Deborah Birx on Wednesday reassured pregnant women that hospitals around the country are taking added measures to ensure the safety of patients and their babies as the coronavirus spreads. “Don’t miss your appointments,” she said. “If your OB thinks you need to be there, you should go.”

The coronavirus outbreak is disrupting pregnancy plans for many U.S. women and adding anxiety and uncertainty to an already stressful time.

As her pregnancy stretched past 44 weeks, Judith grew worried. But rather than seeking medical assistance, the 28-year-old turned to social media for support from some of the internet’s most extreme pregnancy communities. Get the full story from NBCNews.com.

Sherisa Rivera and her husband, Will Rivera II, will never forget the first and only time they saw their baby’s heartbeat on an ultrasound. After two unexplained miscarriages, the flutter on the screen at Sherisa’s obstetrician’s office about seven weeks into her third pregnancy was a welcome sight. The Bloomfield, Connecticut, couple had no idea that less than 24...

Joslyn and Jaxon are twins that don’t share a birth date, a birth year, or even the same birth decade. Sister and brother were born separately at Indiana’s Ascension St. Vincent Carmel Hospital – one in 2019, the other in 2020.

Dylan Dreyer is pregnant with baby No. 2! The TODAY co-anchor, who opened up in April about her struggles with secondary infertility, announced the joyous news on TODAY: She and husband Brian Fichera are expecting their second son in January. She got a little help revealing the news as she shared a video of their 2-year-old son Calvin holding a...

Americans are having fewer and fewer babies, a new government report finds. In fact, we now aren’t making enough babies to replace ourselves. For the population to reproduce itself at current numbers, the “total fertility rate” needs to be 2,100 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age per year, researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in...

According to the lawsuit, the anesthesiologist on call was “paged multiple times (but) did not respond.”

Cardi B reveals why she chose to confirm pregnancy rumors during her “Saturday Night Live” performance, reaffirms her Twitter love for Chrissy Teigen and teaches everyone how to use her popular catchphrases correctly.

A Utah woman has taken to the streets to raise money to make pregnancy possible for her and her husband, who has a condition that makes conception nearly impossible. The couple hopes to raise funds for in vitro fertilization.

Uncle Jesse is going to be a dad in real life. John Stamos announced that he is expecting his first child with fiancee Caitlin McHugh, 31. Read More

U.S. triathlete Gwen Jorgensen is training as hard as ever, despite being seven months pregnant. The Olympic gold medalist has vowed to keep up her regimen throughout her pregnancy. Jorgensen consulted her doctors, who said that as long as she doesn’t strain herself too hard, keeping active during pregnancy is perfectly fine for her health and the health of her...

About 1 out of 10 women in the United States who tested positive for the Zika infection had a fetus or baby with Zika-related birth defects, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC’s Vital Signs report is the first to provide an analysis of a subgroup of 250 pregnant women in the...