The IPS News wire discusses the multitude of ways mothers in Brazil identify meaningfully with pregnancy, labor, and motherhood depending on cultural expectations and traditional considerations. Attending importantly to the ways that there is never a single way of being a mother, the state National Health Foundation’s (FUNASA) Department of Indigenous Health works to respect [...]

The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics reported today that Pastor Charles and Mai Olivia Charamba have composed a song to assist the spread of information regarding maternal mortality rates in Africa. The aim of this musical collaboration is to help reduce the too high rate and with the assistance of the United Nations Population [...]

One of the most severe conditions that a mother can suffer is having an obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is a condition in which is a hole forms either between the rectum and the vagina or between the bladder and the vagina, causing the feces or urine to pass through uncontrollably.  This is often the result of prolonged [...]