Contractions are when the muscles of your uterus tighten and relax to get ready for childbirth. These muscles help push your baby down the birth canal. Once you reach week 37 of your pregnancy, it ...

Contractions during pregnancy refer to the sensation of tightness and hardness in the uterine muscles. During a contraction, the pain or cramping usually starts in the lower back and moves to the ...

Pregnant women can get heat exhaustion and heat illnesses faster than someone not pregnant because the body has to work ...

So Dy and Penders founded Bloomlife, a company that sells wearables designed to track a pregnant woman's contractions in real time, and to send pregnancy data points to an app on the wearer's ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Local news co-anchor Olivia Jaquith went ahead with a three-hour morning newscast even after her labor contractions began and her water broke, keeping viewers updated about the ...