Birth

Childbirth, also known as labour and delivery, is the completion of pregnancy where one or more babies exits the internal environment of the mother via vaginal delivery or caesarean section.

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Earliest signs of neurodegeneration in Down syndrome detected shortly after birth - EurekAlert!

Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth

People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition.

Birth after uterus transplant - EurekAlert!

Treatment of rare childhood epilepsy could begin before birth - EurekAlert!

How the immune system battles lifelong viral infections acquired at birth - EurekAlert!

Antibiotic resistance genes found in newborns within hours of birth, study shows - EurekAlert!

Epigenetic changes at birth are associated with an infant’s microbiome and neurodevelopment - EurekAlert!

High societal costs linked to extremely preterm birth - EurekAlert!

Women were never meant to give birth on their backs

Mother who lost sight after giving birth has vision restored

Treating disease at birth: How a brief spike in testosterone sets the trajectory for a disease that appears decades later - EurekAlert!

Sperm whales help one another give birth, new study finds

Astronomers witness the birth of a new solar system

Fathers’ mental health deteriorates long after the birth of their child - EurekAlert!

For the first time, astronomers witnessed the birth of a 'magnetar'

Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of the universe’s brightest exploding stars

Astronomers capture birth of a magnetar, confirming link to some of universe's brightest exploding stars

Babies Are Exposed to 42 'Forever Chemicals' Before Birth, Study Finds