In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian podcast, The Birth Keepers, explores how a global network promoting unassisted childbirth has shaped women’s decisions around childbirth. One mother’s story ...

China will expand its national healthcare insurance programme next year to fully cover all out-of-pocket expenses related to childbirth, according to state media reports. It is the country’s latest ...

Plummeting birth rates mean that without attracting immigration, many countries are sliding towards collapse I know what “civilisational erasure” looks like: I’ve seen the graph. The European ...

More young, child-free women are pursuing the permanent form of contraception. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta A few years ago, Dr. Leah Tatum, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Austin, noticed a shift among ...

With more than 15 years of experience crafting content about all aspects of personal finance, Michael Benninger knows how to identify smart moves for your money. His work has been published by Intuit, ...

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KVS NVS City Slip 2025: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released the KVS NVS City Slip 2025 for the upcoming common recruitment examination. Candidates who have applied for various ...

"Sovereign living", "holistic birthkeeping" and birth as a "sacred ritual". This is some of the language freebirth influencers and podcasters are using to convince women to reject the modern medical ...

My PCMag career began in 2013 as an intern. Now, I'm a senior writer, using the skills I acquired at Northwestern University to write about dating apps, meal kits, programming software, website ...

Understanding how much you earn and spend is the key to getting control of your finances. Creating a budget gives you a better sense of where your money is going and can help you achieve financial ...

In general, infants that are born very early are not considered to be viable until after 24 weeks gestation. This means that if you give birth to an infant before they are 24 weeks old, their chance ...