Human newborns arrive remarkably underdeveloped. The reason lies in a deep evolutionary trade-off between big brains, bipedalism and the limits of motherhood.

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the physiological stress, injury tolerance, and recovery processes involved in childbirth.

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...

Pregnancy and childbirth is nothing short of miraculous, but it also brings significant changes to your body and mind. Every cell of your being is affected. In fact, research has shown that it can ...

There are a few body parts that remain the same size from the moment we're born until the end of our lives. The human body is an incredible structure of balance, precision, and evolution. While most ...

Birth can be scary. Prior to the global pandemic in 2020, it was estimated that 10 to 15 percent of women in the United States had a fear of childbirth so strong that it impacted their daily ...

Biologists have built up one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after pregnancy, by pooling and studying around 44 million physiological ...

Explore the unsettling contradiction of how society reveres pregnant women yet criticises the bodies that have given birth. Why must mothers feel pressured to 'bounce back' after childbirth?