People tell the BBC about their memories of new hobbies and relationships, of loneliness, and of joy and grief.

When the ambulance arrived, I was clutching Avery to my chest, still attached to me by the cord that had carried him here.

PEOPLE goes inside a postpartum retreat and tells you what you can get for $1,200 a night at a spa for women who just gave ...

Dyana Lederman moved to LA as an aspiring Hollywood sitcom writer. She judged stat-at-home moms and never wanted to be one.

"Our dream home became my hospital," Sarah says ... having to attend pre-natal and post-natal appointments alone, giving birth without anyone they knew by their side, and getting used to being ...

"I wasn’t reckless. I wasn’t naive. My labour simply didn’t follow the slow, predictable timeline I had been led to expect." ...

And while Kylie doesn’t expect to need a caesarean procedure, she slammed the idea that having one makes giving birth any less valid ... O’Brien trophy, let alone that it would be ...

We had prepared a beautiful room for him, a warm bed, a home filled with safety and calm. Instead, he was born into a life of ...