Pregnancy

The American Academy of Pediatrics says pregnant women with opioid addiction should have access to medication in new guidelines released Monday aimed at improving care for women and newborns affected by drug use

CA Live has a new baby on the way! Watch host Amber Pfister get a little celebration surprise by her colleagues and friends, Danielle Nottingham and Vicki Johnson. The ladies talk about Amber’s new bump and the remarkable journey it was for her to become pregnant. Amber shares words of encouragement for all those soon-to-be mamas out there struggling to...

Singer Meghan Trainor revealed that she’s expecting her first child with husband Daryl Sabara.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have shared with the world that they lost their baby following pregnancy complications. We welcomed Stacey Stewart, the CEO of March of Dimes, a nonprofit that works to improve the health of mothers and babies, to discuss how the couple’s openness about their loss is helping to break the culture of silence around miscarriages and...

Chrissy Teigen has suffered a pregnancy loss following a recent hospitalization for excessive bleeding. Angie Crouch reports for NBC4 News on Oct. 1, 2020.

Sarah Ferguson is so excited to be a grandma. Princess Eugenie announced the happy news that she and her husband Jack Brooksbank are expecting a baby on Instagram, sharing an adorable snap of baby shoes. “Jack and I are so excited for early 2021,” the caption reads.

Bindi Irwin and Chandler Powell have announced they’re expecting a baby girl in 2021. The 22-year-old daughter of the late Steve Irwin shared the news with her social media followers on Tuesday, Sept. 22. “Baby girl, you are our world,” Irwin wrote on Instagram. “Our beautiful daughter is now about the same size as a hatchling Aldabra tortoise and is…

Cardi B reveals why she chose to confirm pregnancy rumors during her “Saturday Night Live” performance, reaffirms her Twitter love for Chrissy Teigen and teaches everyone how to use her popular catchphrases correctly.

Heidi Murkoff, author of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” speaks about her book “What to Expect: Eating Well When You’re Expecting.”

There is no evidence that COVID-19 infection during pregnancy directly impacts the growing fetus, NBC News reports. But the stress of being pregnant during the pandemic might.

Pregnancy usually has ups (Strangers hold doors for you!) and downs (Strangers try to touch your stomach!). But what about during a global viral pandemic, when you don’t interact with many strangers at all, and no one wants to touch a door knob, much less another person? Pregnancy during a pandemic is definitely not what you expect when you’re expecting. Watch TODAY...

Latina make up three out of every four COVID-19 patients among pregnant women. Hetty Chang reported on NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, July 20, 2020.

A man who lost his wife shortly after she gave birth is pushing to change state and federal law to help protect more women from pregnancy-related deaths. Kira Johnson, 39, died in April 2016 after a scheduled cesarean section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Dr. Arjang Naim — called grossly negligent in Kira’s death and the near deaths…

A man who lost his wife shortly after she gave birth is pushing to change state and federal law to help protect more women from pregnancy-related deaths. Carolyn Johnson has the story for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Monday, July 13, 2020.

Hospitals are seeing a bump in pregnancies for 2020 – a possible effect of the months-long lockdown across the country.

When Alisa Tyars was pregnant, she had a lot of questions and concerns.  “It was my first pregnancy so I was very scared. I didn’t know what to expect,” she said. But it was more than first time pregnancy jitters. She knew she was at higher risk simply because she’s Black.  “I was aware definitely aware,” she said.  In...

In LA County, Black women are four times more likely to die of pregnancy or childbirth complications, but a county program is providing doulas free of charge to change that and help advocate for new moms. Kim Baldonado reports June 10, 2020.

A local couple is sharing their experience of undergoing a high-risk pregnancy that resulted in the birth of their healthy twin daughters amid the coronavirus pandemic.

New research out of Northwestern University could be a first step to answering the many questions that persist about how contracting the coronavirus during pregnancy affect mother and baby. The small study followed 16 women who tested positive for COVID-19 and gave birth between late March and early May at Northwestern’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Looking at the placenta, it found that these mothers “were...

Access Hollywood shares updates on famous expecting moms, including Katy Perry, Katherine Schwarzenegger, Ciara, Gigi Hadid, Lea Michele and Sophie Turner, as well as busy new parents like Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith.