Before Jennifer Lepine became pregnant, she heard other soon-to-be moms say she should "eat for two."

Triplet births are increasing, even when IVF pregnancies are discounted, and the death rate for triplets is 10 times higher than for single births, Norwegian scientists said.

An American infertility clinic is offering free human eggs to one British woman for attending an informational seminar Wednesday in London.

Screening all pregnant women for a rare but fatal genetic disease is too expensive, researchers say in a new report that adds to a recent controversy about whether genetic tests are worth the cost.

Pregnancy-related deaths appear to have risen nationwide over the past decade, nearly tripling in the state with the most careful count - California.

Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health.

Every day I see them, wedged between the mustard and half-empty jar of capers in my refrigerator. They're the shots that could make me pregnant. But I'm never going to use those shots. I'm through with fertility treatments.

As puberty kicks in for the first children born to infertile men helped with a revolutionary technique, scientists anticipate seeing boys who've inherited the problems of their fathers.

More than 120 women became pregnant in the past year while taking an acne medicine that causes birth defects - despite being enrolled in a program designed to prevent those pregnancies from happening.

After declining for 15 years, new research shows that teen pregnancy is on the rise in the United States, which by far has the highest rate in the industrialized world.

Reversing a trend of nearly five decades, birth weight in the U.S. may be on the decline, according to a new study.

A 25-year-old woman weighing 528 pounds (240 kilograms) gave birth to her first baby on Thursday at a hospital equipped to treat obese people.

Simple training in how to help a newborn start breathing and to keep it warm and clean can slash the rate of stillbirths by a third in poor, rural areas of the world, researchers reported.

Inherited diseases such as cystic fibrosis often occur in families with no known risk of them.

Some of the most devastating inherited diseases are declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people are using genetic tests to decide whether to have children.

State health officials said Tuesday they found nothing unusual about the rate of infant birth defects in an impoverished San Joaquin Valley farm town located next to the West's largest toxic waste dump.

A critical safety net for babies - that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn in the U.S. - is facing an ethics attack.

Experts say commercial surrogacy - or what has been called "wombs for rent" - is growing in India.

Women who are depressed while pregnant may be more likely than other expecting moms to have kids who are physically aggressive as teens, a new study finds.

A 70-year-old woman in India gave birth to her first child, a girl, after undergoing infertility treatment, according to a newspaper report.

Hoping to schedule your baby's birth while your mother's in town? Labor is becoming less of a late-night surprise, but some hospitals are starting to tighten the rules for elective deliveries because some babies are being delivered too early.

Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there.

U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.

With twins on the way, Stacey Blackmar and her husband were looking to be prepared first-time parents when they started researching baby products. Instead, they found themselves bewildered with all the choices and information available.

Pregnant women with untreated gum disease may have more at stake than just their teeth. They may also be risking the lives of their babies, a new study shows.

A small, but growing number of women are choosing to deliver their babies at home without medical help. However, doctors warn about life-threatening risks from do-it-yourself deliveries.

Like babies that can be lulled to sleep with swaying, embryos also prefer to be rocked.

Normally, parents who want to know the sex of their baby before it's born find out through ultrasound done in the second trimester. A blood test that can be done early in pregnancy is highly accurate at determining the sex of the fetus, however, a new study finds.

Nearly half of all births in China are delivered by cesarean section, the world's highest rate according to a survey by the World Health Organization, which warned Tuesday that a boom in unnecessary surgeries is jeopardizing women's health.

With twins on the way, Stacey Blackmar and her husband were looking to be prepared first-time parents when they started researching baby products. Instead, they found themselves bewildered with all the choices and information available.

Parents usually have to wait until at least the end of the first trimester of pregnancy to find out whether they're expecting a boy or girl. But a new non-invasive technique designed to screen for medical conditions reveals the gender as early as five weeks, researchers say.

With twins on the way, Stacey Blackmar and her husband were looking to be prepared first-time parents when they started researching baby products. Instead, they found themselves bewildered with all the choices and information available.

A small, but growing, number of women who are choosing to deliver their babies at home without the presence of any health professionals. However, doctors call these do-it-yourself deliveries risky and reckless.

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The number of baby boys conceived by a fertility treatment known as ICSI may be lower than what is produced by Mother Nature, a new study suggests.

Obese women who gained little or no weight during pregnancy - and even some who lost weight - had favorable outcomes, St. Louis researchers have found. They were at lower risk for developing high blood pressure and delivering by cesarean section and more likely to have a normal-weight baby.

Researchers studying antibiotics in pregnancy have found a surprising link between common drugs used to treat urinary infections with birth defects.

Doctors are getting ready to introduce a cheap in-vitro fertilization procedure across Africa, where women often are ostracized as witches or social outcasts if they cannot have children, officials said Monday.

Women who initially receive just one embryo during in vitro fertilization are as likely to produce a child as women implanted with two, Swedish researchers reported on Wednesday.

Hoping to schedule your baby's birth while your mother's in town? Labor is becoming less of a late-night surprise, but some hospitals are starting to tighten the rules for elective deliveries because some babies are being delivered too early.

Treating seizures during pregnancy is a delicate balance. On the one hand, seizures are dangerous for mother and fetus. On the other, the medications used to treat seizure disorder - also known as epilepsy - may harm the fetus.

Most obese women gain more weight than is recommended during pregnancy, and may find those pounds tough to shed in the long run, a new study suggests.

Hoping to schedule your baby's birth while your mother's in town? Labor is becoming less of a late-night surprise, but some hospitals are starting to tighten the rules for elective deliveries because some babies are being delivered too early.

More hospitals are expected to crack down on labor inductions as federal regulators begin new quality measurements next spring that aim to reduce too-early elective inductions and first-time cesareans.

In the next two weeks, Shannon and Paul Morell will meet their baby boy for the first time after the woman who was wrongly implanted with their frozen embryo gives birth. "This has been a terrible thing that has happened to two good families, but we're doing the best we can for the health of this baby," Shannon Morell said.

In the next two weeks, Shannon and Paul Morell will meet their baby boy for the first time after the woman who was wrongly implanted with their frozen embryo gives birth. "This has been a terrible thing that has happened to two good families, but we're doing the best we can for the health of this baby," Shannon Morell said.

U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity and a jump in Caesarean sections are partly to blame.

Chewing on some sugarless gum may be a low-tech way to help new moms get their bowels moving again after a cesarean section.

A 51-year-old surrogate mother for her daughter has given birth to her own twin grandchildren in northeastern Brazil, the delivery hospital said.

Offering financial incentives to expecting moms may improve their use of prenatal care and make for healthier babies, new research suggests.

America's baby boomlet is showing signs of tapering off.

Some 13 million abortions are carried out in China each year, in part because there is little education about contraception or disease for the rising numbers of young people who are having sex, state media said on Thursday.

Women who use abortion pills rather than the more common surgical method seem to face no greater risk of tubal pregnancy or miscarriage in later pregnancies, according to a new study.

While many pregnant women are pursuing the "perfect bump" by restricting how much they eat, doctors across the country say the real problem is that many women nationwide are gaining too much weight during pregnancy.

You probably recall little of your days in the womb, but a new study suggests that short-term memory may be present in fetuses at 30 weeks of age.

A 67-year-old woman who is believed to be the world's oldest new mother told a British Sunday newspaper she lied to a U.S. fertility clinic - saying she was 55 - to get treatment.

There's a big change coming for pregnant women: Down syndrome testing no longer hinges on whether they're older or younger than 35.

A new test dubbed "Pink or Blue" promises to tell parents the sex of their fetus just six weeks into pregnancy, but critics question its reliability and say it could pose an array of ethical issues.

At the nation's top infertility clinics, improvements in the 'take-home-baby rate' have slowed or even plateaued. But doctors see new hope on the fertility front.

One woman reflects on her infertility struggle - and why she's still trying.

Drinking during pregnancy can seriously harm a baby's brain, yet thousands of mothers-to-be still do. Now more scientists are seeking for ways to reverse the damage.

Why quintuplets, sextuplets and septuplets happen and what the real price is in the long run for megamultiple births are subjects that remain almost unexamined in newspaper, television and magazine accounts. And that is unfortunate, because these costs aren't limited to just financial challenges to the family welcoming the new additions, but to society as well.

Couples struggling to conceive often wish for twins - or more. But new guidelines are urging fertility doctors to transfer just one embryo.

A massive effort to test pregnant women for a deadly germ they can spread to their babies has found a high rate of wrong test results that led some infants to miss out on treatment.

For the first time, a large study shows that pregnant women who suffer morning sickness are not risking harm to their babies if they take a certain anti-nausea drug.

A Michigan woman who's one-third of a set of triplets is celebrating the birth of her own three babies.

Baby-protecting folic acid is getting renewed attention: Not only does it fight spina bifida and some related abnormalities, it also may prevent premature birth and heart defects.

If her fetus is fatally ill or her own health is threatened, a pregnant woman deserves the most humane treatment possible. Yet new laws force doctors to offer inferior care - or none at all.

One-month-old Macie Hope McCartney is aptly named: Given only a one-in-10 chance of surviving surgery to remove a grapefruit-size tumor stealing her life in the womb, she was taken out, operated on, and returned safely - and born again 10 weeks later.

Eating for two? New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy - not too much if women already are overweight or obese when they conceive.

A 67-year-old woman has given birth to twin sons in the northern city of Barcelona, a hospital official said.

Women who eat seafood while pregnant may be boosting their children's IQ in the process, according to new research published Friday in The Lancet.

A western Michigan man helped deliver his wife's baby boy despite not knowing she was pregnant.

Twins, triplets and more - adorable? You bet. But the health risks, expenses and exhaustion proved overwhelming to some readers, and many say they wouldn't choose to have multiples again.

Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman says she used money from an inheritance and overtime wages from her job as a psychiatric technician to pay for her early fertilization procedures.

Scientists have begun questioning the assumption that the biological clock is only a concern for women.

Carrying multiples, even twins, can be a dangerous proposition.

Amanda Brisendine attributed the 30 pounds she gained in the past year to an abandoned smoking habit and rich food. So when she went to the hospital with sharp stomach pain, she wasn't expecting to leave with a newborn son.

It was a Labor Day weekend for the record books at a Florida hospital, where a woman gave birth to the state's first set of sextuplets.

When's the prime time to have kids? We asked readers of our special report "BabyQuest: The modern pursuit of parenthood" to share their experiences and views.

The possibility seems real but don't drop your guy just yet.

The increasing success and widespread availability of fertility treatments over the last decade seem to have lulled some women, and men, into complacency about when to have kids.

Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.

One-month-old Macie Hope McCartney is aptly named: Given only a one-in-10 chance of surviving surgery to remove a grapefruit-size tumor stealing her life in the womb, she was taken out, operated on, and returned safely - and born again 10 weeks later.

When Amy Birney had to decide what to do with the two embryos that remained after her fertility treatment, she knew one thing: The government shouldn't have a say in the matter.

A Georgia measure inspired by the mother of octuplets in California that would have restricted the number of embryos fertility doctors may implant likely won't pass this year.

Lawmakers in two states, outraged by California's "Octomom," are seeking to limit the number of embryos that may be implanted by fertility clinics.

Lawmakers in two states, outraged by octuplets born to a California mother, are seeking to limit the number of embryos that may be implanted by fertility clinics.

Despite 5 million such technology-assisted births, including the recent eight by Nadya Suleman, there remain common misperceptions about "test-tube" and "designer" babies.