Nikki Glaser says that her anticipation of hosting the Golden Globe awards has made her feel “42 weeks pregnant” and she is now ready and impatient for the “baby” to arrive. The stand-up ...

A typical human pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but most parents know this number is only a rough estimate.   Babies are born on a seemingly unpredictable timeline, with a normal pregnancy ranging from 38 ...

Sometimes membrane stripping is done to prevent a woman from going past 42 weeks of pregnancy. If you are pregnant after 42 weeks, there are more risks for the health of the infant. This is ...

The proportion of babies dying before and during labor after 41 weeks of gestation has fallen by 47% in Sweden in a ...

A sharp decline in mortality rates is observed after 41 weeks of pregnancy, indicating improved outcomes for pregnancies that ...

UCSF researchers discovered a molecular timer that gets activated in the first days of pregnancy and influences when mice give birth.

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Nikki Glaser says that her anticipation of hosting the Golden Globe awards has made her feel “42 weeks pregnant” and she is now ready and impatient for the “baby” to arrive. The stand-up comedian and ...