I'll be discussing The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America on a new on-line platform, called Speakeasy, on...

In Random Families: Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin, sociologists Rosanna Hertz and Margaret Nelson ...

With the arrival of cheaper and more user-friendly home pregnancy tests in the 1980s, women were able to confirm their pregnancies earlie...

In the decade and a half that I spent researching my book “The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America,” I dis...

Lara Freidenfelds’s new book, The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America, explores the history of pregnancy a...

After I miscarried my first pregnancy, I quickly realized that I needed a historical perspective to make sense of this shockingly unexpec...

As a historian who has spent a career studying pregnancy and birth, I always look forward to Advent. During the weeks leading up to Chris...

In November 2016, my Facebook feed was filled with friends’ dreaded anticipation of Thanksgiving with extended family, and particularly w...

It was not that long ago that “test tube babies” only existed in science fiction. I remember my shock when, in 2007, one of my students a...

I am glad to see so many women willing to break the silence on miscarriage. I am a historian, and I spent 15 years researching my forthco...

This week I purged my bookshelves. As a Ph.D. historian, it initially felt like a risky move — somewhere in between disowning my former s...

What happens when the person who delivers most of the babies in her community is arrested? This is a tale of two midwives, separated by n...

Last week at a Vatican conference on abortion, Pope Francis “argued that children who were not expected to live long after birth deserved...

“Wait on the curb, kids. Wait until I say you can cross.” Janice, the crossing guard at Fairmount Avenue, stepped briskly into traffic, w...

“In her new book, “Becoming,” Michelle Obama reveals that she miscarried her first pregnancy, and went on to conceive her two daughters b...

Quick — is your nearest hospital affiliated with the Catholic Church? This is a question I would not have been able to answer during my tw...

Before 2016, conversations at school pickup time in my affluent suburb nearly always revolved around kids’ activities and home remodeling...