birth

Pregnancy and birth involve a level of ceding control for anyone who experiences them.

From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2026

Life expectancy at birth rose to 79 from 78.4 in 2023, surpassing the pre-pandemic high of 78.9 in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

"My mother had regrets about my birth, and I was driven to the edge psychologically," she wrote in her autobiography, "A Personal History of Polka Dots".

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

The study will recruit participants from two long-running birth cohort studies: Children of the 90s in south-west England and Born in Bradford in West Yorkshire.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

“Well, I kind of wondered, now that I’m older, if there’s any more information they could give us about, uh, my birth parents,” Jonah said.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Postpartum psychosis is a medical emergency that affects about one to two women in every 1,000 births, said Sally Wilson, national training coordinator at the UK-based charity Action on Postpartum Psychosis.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

The fact that it’s an incredibly rare condition that occurs in around one in 1,000 births would have made it easy to shrug it off as an anomaly.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Postpartum depression occurs in 1 out of 10 women, and postpartum psychosis impacts mothers in 1 or 2 of every 1,000 births.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

As filming was finishing, the conservancy became home to the first ploughshare births in captivity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

Consequently, if humans cut down even one diprotodon every few months, it would be enough to cause diprotodon deaths to outnumber births.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

In the wake of the Manhattan Project that birthed the atomic era — and with it, the ever-present threat of nuclear war — people acted immediately to bring attention to this new threat.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

To display his photographs in rapid succession, Muybridge invented a device that birthed the motion picture.

From Slate ● May 25, 2026

But L.A. needs a skilled leader, not someone birthed by a comic book.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Some new fortunes were birthed out of Harvard Management, which runs Harvard’s endowment—overseen by uncle and nephew Paul and Walter Cabot in the latter half of the last century.

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Not long after I was born, everyone in the county pretty much suspected Momma had birthed me, the height of scandal in a place like Haller County, Kentucky.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Like the spine, the human pelvis must balance two competing demands: efficient bipedal walking and birthing large-brained infants.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026

It’s got a birthing scene like no other.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

The state plans to later expand to additional hospitals and birthing centers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026

In maternity services, inspectors said women were given the opportunity to speak to staff at Royal Lancaster Infirmary about their birthing experience, especially if the experience was not what they had wanted or expected.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

But I know that birthing kills so many women—and babies—that John has reason to worry.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone