It's usually more dangerous for women to give birth lying down, so why do they? It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men.

Patients in labor are usually limited to clear liquids, but runners may have found a workaround to stay energized.

Confined in a pitch-black hospital room, frightened and handcuffed to a man she’d never seen before, wasn’t how Joanne*, then ...