childbirth

Part of the series’ tractor-beam pull is that installments don’t always end with a shamelessly audience-satiating happy climax: Characters are abducted, they lose their innocence, they die in childbirth, they die en masse.

The complication is sudden and can affect both the mother and baby either before, during or immediately after labor and childbirth, experts say.

In the first episode of her new podcast, Confessions of a Female Founder, Meghan said she was diagnosed with post-partum pre-eclampsia following childbirth.

Kat Timpf quickly went from childbirth to a double mastectomy after learning she had cancer the same day she welcomed her son.

It's not because women have, en masse, given up and submitted to forced childbirth.