NZ is still only a middling performer when it comes to parental leave provisions, according to a study.

Breakfast co-host, Pippa Wetzell has announced this morning that she is expecting her third child in February 2011

The first photo of the new baby daughter for All Whites football hero Ryan Nelsen and his wife Monica.

More than half of Kiwis are okay with mothers breastfeeding in public, but a minority still prefer babies be fed in the restroom.

There's no simple job description for fatherhood, but Mangere first-time dad Daniel Brown knows the kind of dad he doesn't want to be.

It is a brave woman to demand that abortions are removed from the Crime Act, writes Dita de Boni.

The Kiwi behind a controversial social networking site that bars ugly people has announced the launch of a virtual sperm and egg bank.

Pregnant Muslim women who fast during Ramadan are likely to have smaller babies, research has found.

Encouraging a mother to spit on her baby may not sound like good science, but it is the basis of a world-first study in NZ.

A NZ medical student who used a Taser to repeatedly shock a woman nearly nine months pregnant has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the US.

A celebrity couple have opened up about the emotional toll of failed IVF attempts in the hope others will take comfort from their ordeal.

Breastfeeding advocates are outraged at a magazine's "commandment".

Ordinary mums-to-be are taking off their clothes in the name of beauty, appearing in a lingerie ad campaign spanning 16 countries.

The first television advert for abortion services in the UK is to be aired next week, prompting anger from anti-abortion groups.

The median age of women giving birth in New Zealand is now 30 years, with Gisborne producing some of our youngest mothers, figures out today show.

She may be an "All-Black", but a baby's links to rugby stardom are no help in paying an unexpected bill of more than $12k for her health care.