What are the biggest maternity care issues where you live?

As a review highlights issues in maternity services in England, we want to hear from readers around the world about the challenges of childbirth they face

Yes, women should choose their maternity care. Why isn’t it happening now?

Baroness Cumberlege’s report proposing personal birth budgets is what many women have wanted for decades – the tricky bit is putting it into practice

The day the NHS saved my life: I lost nearly all my body’s blood after giving birth

I needed an operation and lifesaving transfusion when my placenta became stuck – and the care didn’t stop there

The day the NHS saved my baby’s life: she had stopped breathing

At just 20 hours old, Milli’s glucose levels dropped to potentially fatal levels. Thanks to a midwife’s visit and the Herts air ambulance, she survived – with a mystifying and rare pituitary gland condition identified weeks later

Cancer patient mother says she would have kept her baby ‘in my tummy’

Heidi Loughlin says she would not have chosen to deliver baby 12 weeks early to undergo chemotherapy had she known daughter would not survive

‘They take over your life and then, one day, they walk off with it’: life before and after children

A baby changes everything. So how does it feel when they’re all grown and gone? Photographer Dona Schwartz meets expectant parents and empty-nesters

This is the NHS: a day in the life of the UK’s busiest maternity centre

For the next month, the Guardian is telling the story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, through the voices of those on the frontline. On Thursday, we reported live from Liverpool Women’s hospital

The day the NHS saved my life: my baby was born in our bathroom

Without the 30 or so health professionals who helped when my overdue daughter arrived suddenly, we might both have died

World making barely any progress on preventing stillbirths, says Lancet

It will be more than 160 years before a woman in Africa has the same chance of her baby being born alive as a woman in a rich country, new research claims

Therapy helped me to love my baby after a traumatic pregnancy

Frightened and anxious, I found NHS help which gave me back my life. Cameron’s pledge for more support for mothers must be made a reality