To address the problem, Tokyo mayor Yuriko Koike has pledged to subsidise epidural childbirth “as early as possible” to ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is looking to begin offering a subsidy for epidural childbirths in fiscal 2025.

who gave birth vaginally or by an unplanned caesarean section. Of these, 125,024 women had an epidural, which is administered through an anaesthetic injection in the back to block pain.

"When they placed him on my chest, I was just in shock and I think I said, 'Oh my god' about a hundred times," Jessie Ginsburg told Newsweek.

Ksenija Lukich didn't have a birth plan for her first child. She was willing to relinquish control, to allow the delivery to ...

The Tokyo metropolitan government will subsidize the cost of “painless delivery,” the use of an epidural or other anesthetics ...

Objective is to examine the effect of epidural analgesia in first stage ... babies were delivered at a free standing birth center or at 3 hospitals, all in San Diego, CA. This study of 2,052 ...

There are pros and cons to social media birth announcements, but ultimately, it's up to the parent or parents to decide what ...

Japan  which has the most generous childcare leave policies in the world, has increased its spending on childcare and offered ...