BabyCenter's series "So this happened" shares personal accounts of the rewarding, complicated, or straight-up messy parts of the pregnancy and parenting journey, from people in the trenches. When I ...

If untreated, blood clotting during pregnancy can lead to serious conditions like pulmonary embolism (PE), which can be fatal ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body through the bloodstream (embolism).

very rare complication” called amniotic fluid embolism (AFE). According to the Cleveland Clinic, AFE is a “rare and life-threatening complication that occurs when a pregnant woman gets ...

Hewitt said when she woke up, she didn't know if she was pregnant or not. "That was a little frightening," she said. Hewitt had experienced an Amniotic Fluid Embolism, which is essentially an ...