As anyone who experiences it knows, pregnancy vastly transforms the body – and now we have the most detailed picture yet of how it affects the blood, organs and immune system on a weekly basis. This ...

The truth is pregnancy causes some surprising long-term changes to your body, regardless of whether you’re a celebrity or a soccer mom. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Dr. Shazia Malik, a ...

Pregnancy physically reshapes the brain, temporarily stripping away gray matter in a process that researchers now believe may fine-tune neural circuits for parenthood. A growing body of MRI-based ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Emily Jacobs of UC Santa Barbara about how pregnancy reshapes the brain, the subject of a study out this week in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The body transforms in ...

From stretch marks and hyperpigmentation to hair thinning, shedding, and increased loss, many new parents will experience these common postpartum changes. Post-pregnancy life is often portrayed as ...

Pregnancy is a hugely transformative experience, both in how it can change someone’s day-to-day life, and how it affects the body. There’s a key part of the body that’s been under-researched in ...