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

Experience: I gave birth at 23 weeks

The consultant told us it was not routine to try to sustain the life of a baby born as early as ours, but for us it was simple: we wanted our daughter to have every opportunity to live

Italian government investigates after five pregnant women die in a week

Health ministry send teams to four hospitals in north of Italy, which has one of the world’s lowest maternal mortality rates

Want to know how to deliver a baby? There’s an app for that

Safe Delivery app provides instructions to health workers in remote areas on how to deal with complicated births, to help save the lives of mothers and babies

Call to review baby death rates at more than 20 NHS trusts and boards

Inquiry urges those with higher than average stillbirth and newborn death rates to examine their maternity care to see if mistakes were made

​The woman who came to hospital and gave birth in a room alone​

I had been taught that doctors had all the knowledge, power and skill. Yet, Chakki hadn’t done too badly on her own

How long will it take me to recover after giving birth?

In the age of celebrities flaunting flat stomachs weeks after giving birth, many women feel insecure about how long it takes them to heal. But a new study suggests it might take several months to get back to normal