The details of a surrogacy case involving an Australian couple commissioning a pregnancy in Thailand have created outrage in all sorts of quarters.

Families do best when everyone is getting plenty of sleep. Even if just one member of a family is not sleeping well, the whole household can be affected.

Sonny Bill Williams' baby may be born a Kiwi as he and pregnant wife Alana plan to be based in NZ before the birth.

Breakthrough time-lapse image technology is offering fresh hope to couples struggling to have children.

A clampdown on paid surrogacy in Thailand following the abandoning of Down syndrome baby "Gammy" by his Australian parents, will shut the door on desperate Kiwi couples.

Pregnant women would get free dental care, doctors' visits and prescriptions under a Labour Government in a plan to be unveiled at the party's campaign launch.

You can read all the books, go to ante-natal classes and download the latest apps to monitor your pregnancy, but there will still be surprises when your little bundle of joy arrives.

Girls born to stressed mothers are themselves more likely to give birth prematurely, scientists have found.

A mother whose botched delivery of her baby daughter led to a midwife being criticised says she has finally seen justice served for the little girl.

A maternity unit midwife held a partly born baby's umbilical cord to keep it warm during an emergency ambulance ride to hospital.

A Thai surrogate mother has declared she will "not give my baby to anybody" and rejected offers to adopt her 6-month-old son.

Psychologists have missed the nuttiness of men as birth of baby approaches. With a random sample n=1 let me plug the gap.

Rodney Hide and wife Louise are celebrating the arrival of a baby boy.

Although IVF treatments are widely accepted in New Zealand, it is ethically inconsistent that the human embryo research the treatments depend on remains prohibited, a University of Otago professor says.

Technology has become so ingrained in family life that it’s even started changing the way children speak.

Burlesque star Dita Von Teese is launching her own maternity lingerie line.

The brains of premature babies can perform almost as well as those born at full-term by the time they're teenagers, depending on the environment the child grows up in, an Australian study shows.

Lucy Nicoll always expected to breastfeed her newborn triplets - what she didn't bank on was expressing milk night and day for her babies after they were born 15 weeks early.

Georgia Hageman was in bed at 4.30am when her waters broke and less than four hours later the 15-year-old Aucklander was holding her baby son.

Children's "vulnerability" is more like a revolving door than a fixed state, a new report has found.

A Spanish drug trafficker has given birth while in custody after attempting to smuggle up to half a million dollars worth of cocaine into New Zealand.

I love cricket. I love watching it. I love playing it, but I've got a problem. My wife is due to give birth today - the first day of the second England vs India test match at Lord's. And I've got a....

Women are often encouraged to "eat for two" during pregnancy. While this is right in terms of eating to meet both mum's and baby's needs, it doesn't mean doubling her total food and energy intake.

When Lilly McDonald first heard about an online group offering stuff for nothing, she didn't believe it.

A fertility support group is calling for a change in government in vitro fertilisation funding so couples can get a third cycle free.

Children in same-sex families scored better on a number of key measures of physical health and social well-being than kids from the general population.

Pregnant women are being reminded to heed dietary guidelines because not doing so can result in the death of unborn children.

If we emphasise that teenage mothers will do badly in life, they are far more likely to, writes Verity Johnson.

Neil Lyndon likes to tell dads-to-be that they'll see things in the delivery room worse than gruesome hand-to-hand combat with axe and pike.