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The Van Der Beek family is feeling extra thankful this Thanksgiving week. On Monday, Nov. 22, James Van Der Beek, 44, confirmed on Instagram that his wife Kimberly Van Der Beek, 39, welcomed a baby boy named Jeremiah, who is already nicknamed Remi. “After experiencing late-term #pregnancyloss twice in a row (both at 17+ weeks), we kept this one quiet,”…

Pregnancy advocates are expressing outrage after a young Oklahoma woman was convicted of first-degree manslaughter earlier this month for having a miscarriage, which the prosecutor blamed on her alleged use of methamphetamine.

The loss of a pregnancy or miscarriage comes with a physical and emotional toll. But after a pregnancy loss, people are often forced to return to work almost immediately. But a new bill in Congress would change that by providing at least three days of paid leave to employees who lose a pregnancy. Dana Sussman, deputy executive director for...

The criminal justice activist and her husband announced the happy news on their podcast.

Singer-songwriter Michelle Branch opened up in a candid post on Instagram, revealing that she experienced her first miscarriage this month.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend have shared with the world that they lost their baby following pregnancy complications. We welcomed Stacey Stewart, the CEO of March of Dimes, a nonprofit that works to improve the health of mothers and babies, to discuss how the couple’s openness about their loss is helping to break the culture of silence around miscarriages and...

Shawn Johnson is proving that she still has what it takes to stick it. She may be 40 weeks pregnant but the Olympic gold medalist is still able to fit into the leotard she sported at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. Although, she cheekily quips on Instagram that the uniform “fits a little different these days.”

A woman says a pharmacist denied her doctor’s prescription for miscarriage medications to end her 10-week-old pregnancy based on moral grounds. Nicole Artega’s baby had stopped development, and her doctor had told her the pregnancy would end in a miscarriage. Her doctor gave her two options: have a surgery, or have get a prescription for the medication and take it...

When an ultrasound found Nicole Artega’s 8-week-old fetus had no heartbeat, her doctor gave her two options: Surgery or medication to induce a miscarriage. She chose the latter. But when Artega went to a Walgreens pharmacy in Peoria, Arizona, the pharmacist refused to fill her prescription on “moral” grounds.

Florida confirmed its first Zika-related case of microcephaly, in a child whose mother contracted the virus in Haiti, officials said Tuesday.

A new study shows that people who drank three or more cups a day of caffeinated drinks while trying for a pregnancy — sodas, energy drinks or coffee — were more likely to lose that pregnancy early on, Today.com reported. That was the case for men or women. And if women consumed more caffeine after they conceived, they were also...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported nine confirmed cases of Zika in pregnant women in the U.S., NBC News reports. According to the CDC, all nine women reported some of the commonly observed symptoms of the virus. Four pregnancies ended in miscarriage or abortion, one baby was born with severe brain defects and two women are...