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When women have a miscarriage, one of the first questions they often ask is how long they should wait before getting pregnant again.

As if expecting parents didn’t have enough things to worry about, here comes another thing to fret over: their dimming prospects of buying a home for their growing families.

A New York Times article published Tuesday reported that a pregnancy has become a potential deal-breaker when it comes to securing a home mortgage, even though mortgage rates are the lowest they’ve been in 50 years and home prices are falling.

As their due date creeps closer, many pregnant women pack a go bag for the hospital: toothbrush, iPod, cute bringing-baby-home outfit. But in recent months, savvy mothers-to-be have started tucking in one more important item: a kit to collect and donate the blood in their babies' umbilical cord.

A blood test during pregnancy could one day replace more invasive tests for Down's syndrome, say researchers.

Doctors could one day use a blood test to predict decades in advance when women will go into menopause, scientists say. In research to be presented on Monday at a European fertility conference in Rome, Iranian experts say their preliminary study could be a first step toward developing a tool to help women decide when they want to have children.

A new, longer-lasting "morning-after" pill to prevent unwanted pregnancy appears to work with no unexpected side effects, U.S. health regulatory staff said in documents released on Tuesday.

Jarretta Hamilton, a 39-year-old teacher from St. Cloud, Fla., was fired from Southland Christian School for becoming pregnant three weeks before she and her husband Sam were married. In a letter to her lawyer, the school said she "was asked not to return because of a moral issue that was disregarded, namely fornication."

As Morissette pregnancy rumors abound...
Alanis Morissette suffered what may have been one of the most tortured love lives of any pop star we've ever heard of, with her first single "You Oughta Know" rising to the top of the 1995 charts as the anthem for the betrayed and brokenhearted.

The shock and stress felt by pregnant women after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, may have contributed to an increase in miscarriages of male fetuses in the United States, according to a study released Monday.

Women could help reduce childhood obesity by keeping a healthy weight during pregnancy and breast-feeding, a government panel ...