pregnancy

Texas has already seen temperatures hitting over 100 degrees this summer and medical experts are now warning about the dangers of extreme heat for pregnancies.

Over the decades pregnancy has been depicted in American comedy in some funny ways. From Lucille Ball’s real-life pregnancy on I Love Lucy – To Pam and Jim having a baby in The Office. Victoria Sturtevant joins us to discuss her new book, It’s all in the Delivery, and looks at how comedy led the way to how Americans talk about pregnancy, infertility, adoption, and abortion.

Today on Texas Matters: As measles continues to spread in Texas, will state leaders learn a lesson about the need for vaccine requirements? And there is more evidence that the Texas abortion ban made childbirth more dangerous. But the state doesn’t want you to know that.

The time a person has to decide whether to have an abortion in Florida and other states with six-week abortion bans is at most two weeks. Why? It's has to do with how we date early pregnancy.

New research underlines the importance of doula care in improving maternal mortality and morbidity for pregnant Medicaid patients.

The study found boys diagnosed with autism were more than three times as likely to have been born to mothers who reported consuming at least one or more servings of diet soda a day during pregnancy or breastfeeding.

Starting Sept. 1, limited abortion care will be legal in Texas in two pregnancy circumstances. Getting that through the conservative Texas legislature required "masterful and discreet" lawmaking.

Dr. Quanita Crable, an OB-GYN with Texas Health Dallas, explains to KERA's Sam Baker why she believes laparoscopic myomectomy is the best option to remove the fibroids.

A decade ago, Black women in Texas were twice as likely as white women to die as they carried and delivered babies. Today, not much has changed.

A New York woman seeking to end a dangerous ectopic pregnancy in a fallopian tube finds the procedure more complicated and expensive than expected — even in a state with liberal abortion laws.