Researchers have made a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal pelvis found in Israel. Although the size of the reconstructed birth canal shows that Neanderthal childbirth was about as ...

If the scene inside a modern-day maternity ward seems stressful and primal, Cara Ratner wants you to imagine what it was like to bring a baby into the world in the days before 911 and anesthesia.

In the hot & heavy debate over “natural” v. “painless” childbirth, the naturalist school has a pet argument: childbirth among primitive peoples, they contend, is easier than among women “degenerated ...