Contractions are when the muscles of your uterus tighten and relax to get ready for childbirth. These muscles help push your baby down the birth canal. Once you reach week 37 of your pregnancy, it ...

Tammy Jackson, a mentally ill pregnant woman, was forced to deliver her baby in an “isolation cell” in a Florida detention center in April, according to public defender Howard Finkelstein in a letter ...

Labor contractions are the physical way your uterus tightens to promote delivery of your baby. All body muscles tighten and shorten (contract) when they’re being used. And the uterus is one of the ...

BLACKWOOD, New Jersey (WABC) -- The birth of a child is one of the most magical and frightening times in a couple's life, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, new rules are forcing many women to do it ...

BLACKWOOD, New Jersey -- It's one of the most magical and frightening times in a couple's life: the birth of a child. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, new rules are forcing many women to do it alone ...

Muscle contraction is the tightening, shortening, or lengthening of muscles when you do some activity. It can happen when you hold or pick up something, or when you stretch or exercise with weights.

Thanks to YouTube and some quick thinking, a new mother from Tennessee was able to deliver her own baby when she was alone in a hotel room overseas in Istanbul, Turkey.WTVF reports Tia Freeman, 22, ...

The morning of my 37-week appointment, I took my 2-year-old daughter, Frankie, to preschool; went to work and then headed to my OB/GYN in the afternoon, fully expecting to be home before dinner. When ...

THERE is ample evidence in the literature that the belladonna alkaloids exert an antispasmodic effect on the motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract. It has been found that intestinal ...

BLACKWOOD, New Jersey (WPVI) -- It's one of the most magical and frightening times in a couple's life: the birth of a child. But with the COVID-19 pandemic, new rules are forcing many women to do it ...