Mother’s Day is a time when many people’s thoughts turn to their own experience of family life. While we are often inundated with traditional ideas of what motherhood means, many families may be ...

A new study indicates that people are becoming first times parents at ages 40 and over more frequently. Fact checked by Sarah Scott Just a few decades ago, the idea of having kids in your 40s was ...

The average age of moms giving birth in the U.S. continues to rise, hitting nearly 30 years old in 2023, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the report, ...

A machine-learning tool can predict which individuals are at high risk of developing post-partum depression, an often-debilitating condition that affects around 17% of people giving birth worldwide 1.