A 23-year old woman from Minneapolis is planning to broadcast the birth of her first child, live on the Internet in November.

Pregnant women with a history of depression and depressive symptoms who use psychiatric medication may be three times more likely to deliver prematurely, according to the Michigan-based Pregnancy Outcomes and Community Health Study.

CBS2 News in Chicago reports that 115 of 800 female students at Paul Robeson High School in Chicago are expectant moms-to-be.

The trial of Dr. Edward Erin, 43, continued at the Old Bailey yesterday. He is accused of having given his girlfriend tea laced with drugs in an attempt to abort her pregnancy against her will and without her knowledge.

Gestational diabetes is a pregnancy related condition. Gestational diabetes can be a frightening condition. In this article Sarah Leigh is interviewed and talks about her experiences with gestational diabetes.

Despite various global initiatives to bring down the maternal mortality levels in sub-Saharan Africa, more than 250,000 women in this part of the world die each year as a result of pregnancy or child labour.

A Tunisian woman is said to be expecting 12 babies. The Arabic language teacher in her thirties is being described by her family as a miracle. Doctors are doubtful that any of the babies will survive the pregnancy.

A new trend is bulging in Japan; namely that of pregnant women having nude pictures taken of themselves to celebrate and memorialize their experience. Read all about this bare and beautiful exercise, which costs about $350 US.

In a recent study in the United Kingdom, it was revealed that eating omega-3-rich seafood could extinguish depression among women during pregnancy.

Dr. Hossein Fatemi has been testing the H1N1 virus and its impact on fetal development for over 10 years. His findings provide an important link between viral infections in pregnant women and profound mental disease in their offspring.

As H1N1 swine flu vaccine manufacturers work to hit dosage demands of governments around the world - and the virus demonstrates its ability to strike pregnant women - new priorities are being established for who should first receive the flu shot.

Following a decreasing trend from 1991 to 2005, birth rates among U.S. teens are significantly increasing since 2006, according to a government-funded study.

A joint research conducted by Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, Calif and Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. found a direct relationship between depression during pregnancy and major risk for the unborn baby.

According to an Australian study, men who ejaculated daily for seven consecutive days had improved sperm quality by reducing the amount of DNA damage. Additionally, decreased semen volume and sperm concentrations, but improved sperm motility were seen.

The program pays $1 a day to girls ages 12-to-17 not to get pregnant. Recent graduates of the program have cashed in more than $2,000.

Traces of pesticides and herbicides have been found in the urine of pregnant women in France, even a long time after exposition to them. That is the conclusion of a report published by the French Institute of Health Surveillance, a government agency.

A trial in France is expected to reach a verdict later this week in the case of a French woman accused of murdering three newly born babies. Two babies were left in a freezer and one was burned.

When a woman faces an unwanted pregnancy she has few options in many parts of the world. To terminate the fetus she risks prison or the possibility of death. Still 17 million women this year will take that risk by having an illegal abortion.

Mia Washington, a mother from Texas, has given birth to twins who have different biological fathers. The double pregnancy is known technically as “heteropaternal superfecundation.

There's one birth defect that is 100 per cent preventable: fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. The only way to prevent this detect though is to not drink a drop of alcohol while you are pregnant.