Schools Secretary Ed Balls has defended the government’s record on teenage pregnancies, as new data is likely to show a key target will be missed. Mr Balls said he expected statistics to show that the rate of teenage pregnancies is now the lowest it has been for well over a decade. But...

Pregnant women do not need to "eat for two", drink full fat milk or even alter how much food they eat for the first six months, NHS experts say. In the last three months they only need an extra 200 calories a day, draft advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical...

Experts fear older women are ditching contraception in the mistaken belief that they cannot get pregnant past a certain age. The Family Planning Association (FPA) believes the message on infertility and age has gone "too far". Although fertility does wane, women can still fall...

Expectant mums need to stop blaming their bump for memory lapses, say experts who want to dispel the "baby brain" myth. Neither pregnancy nor motherhood addle a woman’s brain, say the researchers based on their study of 1,241 women both before and after having babies. The...