Although the risk of pregnancy complication is higher in c-sections, it is estimated that about 25% of all pregnant women will have at least one complication of pregnancy, resulting from different situations, including infections, chronic disease or fetal problems.

The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention recognize preconception care as an important factor of health care for all women of reproductive age, developing educational programs to improve both preconception health and pregnancy outcomes.

Once upon a time, women had no other option that giving birth at home. As medicine evolved, doctors' offices and hospitals became the common scenery for labor and delivery.

You have heard; the older you get, the more at risk you are of potential complications throughout the different stages of your pregnancy. Fertility and age are two factors closely associated, although women younger than age 20 may face infertility as well.

Prenatal care is a concept that is not widely practiced today, despite the enormous number of information related to different aspects of preconception.

Nine months of fears, discomfort, stress and dreams are over and your baby is at home, as the wonderful present your and your partner were waiting for. However, after delivery you will find one day that the mirror says you are not back to your old self, at least not with all the extra pounds gained with pregnancy.

Since ancestral times, different cultures showed off different customs and beliefs around the miracle of life that birthing means. Birth has been also associated to fertility of the earth, and is the symbol of construction that rules the universe.

After the legalization of abortion in America, fetal surgery found new paths to understanding a baby's development helping to save the fetus life instead of stop its growth.

Childbirth has been a long time mystery, from conception and fetal development to labor and delivery. Since ancient times, guessing the gender of a developing baby was a sort of divinatory activity mixed with superstitions.

Many couples are concerned when conception delays and it seems there is no reason for such delaying, unless infertility could be the cause. If it is certain that infertility is not the reason, there is another probable cause that is often ignored: timed intercourse.