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Birth


 Researchers find both children of parents with mental illness are at increased risk of being born too early – both the mothers and fathers are important.

Fathers' psychiatric diagnosis increases risk of preterm birth - study

Midwifery continuity care was found to give women better pregnancy experiences than those who didn't have it.

This is the safest age to give birth: New study's surprising findings

By Walla!
 Illustrative image of a baby drinking from a bottle.

Children born underweight are at higher risk for Type 2 Diabetes

By WALLA! HEALTH
 GILBOA PRISON, in northern Israel near the West Bank.

Palestinian terrorist's wife has quadruplets with semen smuggled from prison

 Empty beds in the intensive care unit at the Coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on October 14, 2021.

Why Israel innovates in healthcare and what the world can learn - opinion

By PHILIP BENDHEIM
 An Iranian soldier stands guard near Iranian Navy helicopter carrier Kharg at Port Sudan at the Red Sea State, October 31, 2012.

Iran faces battle to boost birth rate to stop demographic 'black hole' - analysis

 Mother and baby

How should you prepare to leave the house with your newborn?

By DANIEL SARANSKY/WALLA!
 ON PAPER, every woman in Israel has the right to choose to give birth in a hospital, at home or in a birth center, says the writer.

Human rights in childbirth - opinion

By HAYUTA GOREN
Illustrative image of a newborn baby

What is a newborn scrunch and why's it so important for a newborn baby?

By DANIEL SARANSKY/WALLA!
 Illustrative image of a baby.

A baby in Brazil was born with a 12 cm tail with 4 cm-thick ball of skin

By WALLA! HEALTH
 Baby foot (Illustrative)

This baby was born weighing 7 kilograms

By WALLA! HEALTH
 Pregnant woman suffers from depression (Illustrative)

Prenatal alcohol consumption can change your baby's face shape - study

By WALLA! HEALTH
Midwifery continuity care was found to give women better pregnancy experiences than those who didn't have it.

Israeli midwives stretched too thin, assist multiple births at once

 DNA, where genetics live. (Illustrative).

Two men in Canada seek compensation after they discover they were switched at birth

Illustrative image of a newborn baby

A baby girl was born with a 6 cm tail – and it kept growing

By Walla!