Pregnancy and Childbirth

Women's health experts have welcomed new national guidelines for the treatment of miscarriage, recurrent miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy up to 14 weeks gestation.

Network 10 presenter Narelda Jacobs and midwife Cherisse Buzzacott open up about their experiences of motherhood — navigating joy, grief and loss, blended families, rainbow families, sleepless nights and why it takes a "ready-made village".

Northern Territory mums are calling for more choices in maternity care with the imminent closure of the territory's only private ward.

Women across the Northern Territory say they've been "robbed of choice" ahead of the NT's only private maternity ward closing, with some heading interstate to give birth or delaying a pregnancy altogether.

In Papua New Guinea's main hospital, women are being forced to give birth on the floor due to a lack of beds.

One of PNG's most respected and longstanding doctors says thousands of women have been treated on the floor of the country's main hospital due to a lack of beds and maternity spaces, with capacity for the neglected hospital surpassed in the 1990s.

A child born to an overseas commercial surrogate is in legal limbo, with experts estimating hundreds of other Australian children are also living with uncertain parentage.

A child born to an overseas commercial surrogate is in legal limbo, as Kate McKenna explains.

A Brisbane couple could face prosecution after they admitted to using a commercial surrogacy service to have a baby abroad, but experts say the laws need to change.

The drug, given as an injection under the skin, combines fragments of a protein found in the beta cells of people with type 1 diabetes and vitamin D to calm the immune response.

Researchers say women are feeling under represented in politics and struggle to speak up about the issues that matter to them.

The fertility company has responded to questions from the Australian Securities Exchange after its recent embryo mix-up dropped the share price.

A Queensland Health spokesperson said early investigations suggested human error and a failure to follow processes were behind the Monash IVF mistake, which resulted in a patient being implanted with another woman's embryo. 

One less infant, under the age of six months, was hospitalised each day following the release of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) shot, Queensland Health says.

Leah Pitman and Dustin Atkinson say failings at Northern Beaches Hospital caused the death of their newborn baby Harper. This is their harrowing and heartbreaking story.

Queensland's health minister says Monash IVF is being monitored after the wrong embryo was transferred to a patient at a Brisbane clinic. 

Monash IVF, which operates nationally, discovered the mistake at a Brisbane clinic in February, after the birth parents asked to transfer their remaining frozen embryos to another provider. 

Monash IVF realised the mistake in February, after the birth parents asked to transfer their remaining frozen embryos to another provider.

A woman has given birth to a stranger's baby after Monash IVF mistakenly transferred a different patient's embryo. 

More than 2,300 cases of the flu have been recorded in SA so far this year — 690 more than the same time last year — and the government is urging parents with young children to get their free vaccination.