As an expectant parent, you may have heard about childbirth practices that fall outside of standard labor, delivery and newborn care. Some may offer possible benefits to you or your baby. However, ...

As someone on a journey to zero-waste, Kate Hall struggled to find the perfect contraceptive. The packaging of the pill left behind plastic waste, and she was forced to abandon the birth control ...

The birth control pill serves as a vital tool for managing reproductive health. However, there comes a time for many ...

The co-founder and president of a new nonprofit dedicated to fertility awareness wants women to ask questions. “I just want to encourage women to be curious,” Emily Frase of FAbM Base (pronounced “fam ...

Last year, Hilary Duff’s Instagram post about her home birth drew tons of attention, showing the singer in a birthing tub, cradling her new baby with a support team nearby. The post shared the joys of ...

The rhythm or calendar method is a natural approach to birth control. It requires a person to monitor their menstrual cycle and signals from the body to estimate when sex is least likely to result in ...

Kristin Weiland is a documentary film producer and writer with a background in crisis management and ethnographic research. She specializes in investigative and social impact documentary projects, and ...

According to posts on TikTok, hormonal birth control can cause a nearly unlimited list of ailments: Depression, irreversible infertility, acne, destruction of the gut biome, weight gain, balding, and ...

When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002 approved hysteroscopic sterilization, a less invasive type of permanent contraception branded as Essure, it was considered a turning point in ...