The Medicaid program covers one in every three births and one in every three children in the United States, and it's still not enough.

CNN: America flunks its health exam

The study of 600, 000 births found three successive drops in babies born before 37 weeks - each occurring after a phase of a public smoking ban was introduced.

BBC: Smoking ban 'cuts premature births'

Julie Marsh, 38, needed a full year after the births of each of her three children to get her sex life back to normal.

CNN: New moms and the post-baby sex slump

Trauma and growth: A new study of California births found that boys born three months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had significantly greater cognitive development at age 2 than children born before the attacks.

WSJ: Exercise in Short Bursts Is Effective

Mothers from Eastern Europe accounted for one in three of the increase in the number of births between 2006 and 2007, although only one in 50 of all births in Scotland was to a mother from Eastern Europe.

BBC: Population 'highest in 25 years'

Preterm births have dipped slightly in the past three years, but the U.S. rate is still up by more than a third since the early 1980s.

WSJ: How Hospitals Save More Lives and Reduce Infections in Premature Babies

Paul Brennan, director of clinical services at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, said the report concluded it was "appropriate to reopen the unit for births" but said a period of three months was needed to address the recommendations.

BBC: Cotswold maternity unit

The fates of the three Caston brothers may well have been fixed at their births.

CNN: Morning Buzz

The number of hospitals offering water births in the US has increased to 200 from just three in 1991.

BBC: Water birth drowning risk

In 2006, of the 152 live births at 22 weeks, 19 were admitted to hospital and three survived.

BBC: Severely premature babies: More survive being born early