Birth

9 Months Episode 7: Watch what you eat; organic food, ingredients make a world of difference

In this episode, we walk you through good eating habits and options of organic food and ingredients. Get healthy eating tips from nutritionists as we shop.

9 Months Episode 15: A Guide to the delivery, by doctors — Part 1

In this episode, author Meghna Pant talks to doctors, who’ve guided thousands of women through labour, about what a woman can expect during delivery, whether C-section is better than natural delivery and the secret to bearing labour pain.

Kangaroo mother care can help reduce neonatal mortality rate in India

If Indian mothers can be persuaded to care for their babies like kangaroo mothers do, many babies younger than four weeks who die every year can be saved.

'mBirth' app is making the process of getting birth certificates easy and quicker

Thanks to mBirth - a new birth registration system created by the Registration Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency (RITA), a government agency tasked to register births and deaths, and mobile phone operator Tigo - Arnold is one of a growing number of Tanzanian babies to have their birth officially registered.

Man livestreams wife giving birth on Facebook Live

Call it bizarre or being technology-savvy, a California-based man live-streamed the birth of his child on Facebook Live, a video streaming service from the social networking site, the media reported on Wednesday.

Did you know ageing begins even before you are born?

The process of ageing begins even before we are born, says a new study, which used rats to model pregnancy and foetal development.

The biological clock wont tick: Ex-Miss World Diana Hayden delivers baby 8 years after freezing egg

Former Miss World Diana Hayden has given birth to a baby girl born out of an egg the 42-year-old star froze eight years ago at a city hospital this month.

Devotees help Muslim woman deliver baby in Ganpati temple in Mumbai

Female devotees seated outside a Ganpati temple in Mumbai helped a Muslim woman give birth after taxi driver left them in lurch.

Woman gives birth to baby girl mid-air on Air Canada flight to Tokyo

A Canadian woman gave birth aboard a plane to Tokyo after going into labour over the Pacific Ocean, a spokesman for Air Canada said Monday, an event the baby's father described as "completely unexpected".

Gautam Gambhir blessed with a baby girl

Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir on Thursday became the father of a baby girl as his wife Natasha gave birth to their first child.