Family Health Articles

Vulvodynia is, in short, chronical pain in the vulva. The pain can be spread all over the vulva or can be localized to a certain area. It can have various caused, but the cause may also be unknown.

Vaginal bleeding during the first trimester of pregnancy does not always indicate you will have a miscarriage. What are the other reasons you may bleed during pregnancy?

There are multiple drugs and dozens of herbs for starting and stopping breast milk production. Only a few of them work really well.

With the end to health insurance payments for birth control pills looming as a possibility in the near future, millions of American women are considering an IUD as a birth control option. Is an intrauterine device the best option?

Despite high breastfeeding initiation rates in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, fewer mothers are still nursing when their babies are six months old. What obstacles prevent mothers in this region from nursing for longer? SteadyHealth investigates.

Global breastfeeding rates being are lowest in the World Health Organization's European region, with Serbia lagging behind many other Eastern European countries. What are the reasons for this, and what would increase the number of nursing mothers?

Croatia has the most impressive breastfeeding rates in its region — why, and what could it do to perform even better?

Breastfeeding has important health benefits for mothers and babies alike, yet few Bosnian mothers nurse their babies exclusively for six months as the World Health Organization recommends. What could be done to get more mothers nursing for longer?

Montenegrin mothers often manage to keep breastfeeding despite bad healthcare provider advice, a SteadyHealth survey finds, but do the patriarchal attitudes they then encounter in their surroundings get them down?

Having a baby changes a woman’s brain so that she is more empathetic toward her newborn. Similar changes do not occur in the brains of the fathers of infants.