Expectant mothers who smoke are more likely to have babies with health problems and low birth weight.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

And they had fewer preterm births and fewer babies with low birth weight.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

One night,I was helping with the birth and I suspected twins.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

For example,in most sub-Saharan African countries, the U.N.Children's Fund says more than half the deliveries take place at home, with no skilled birth attendant present.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

They found that women who gave birth after age 40 were nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as a woman under 25.

VOA: standard.2010.02.10

Some protestors carry signs comparing the Obama administration with Nazi Germany, and fringe elements still question whether the president is really a U.S.citizen, despite the fact that he has an official birth cirtificate on file with the state of Hawaii and birth announcements were printed shortly after he was born.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17