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Women need a supportive partner during labour, be it the baby's father, family member or friend and some women choose a doula, but what is the scope of the doula's role and are they afforable for many women?

Size-obsessed women can go to extreme lengths to avoid weight gain in pregnancy, spending hours at the gym and excessively controlling their diet, but it's not only their health at stake—what about baby's?

Under the rule of the Taliban women are forbidden treatment by male doctors and women cannot train to be physicians but new midwives may help to reduce maternal mortality.