The study recruited a self-selected population of pregnant women from a single obstetrician/nurse-midwife practice in the suburban Chicago area whose usual philosophy ...

A new International Journal of Nursing Practice study demonstrates that during childbirth, women may benefit from warm showers, perineal exercises with a ball, or the combination of both strategies.

For millions of new mothers each year, the arrival of a baby is followed by weeks of a pain that few people talk about: the ...