BIRENDRANAGAR, Dec 31: The Nepal Demographic Health Survey 2022 has revealed a concerning trend in Karnali, where 21 percent of girls under the age of 19 are found to be pregnant. Among the districts, Jajarkot records the highest percentage at 38.83, while Kalikot reports the lowest at 20.20 percent, reflecting instances of child marriage as a contributing factor.

KATHMANDU, March 23:Actress Lindsy Lohan in expecting her first child with Husband Bader Shammas. The duo tied knot on November 2022.

Rihanna was pregnant with her second child as she performed her Super Bowl halftime show Sunday.

Britney Spears, less than five months after her conservatorship ended, confused some fans Monday when she posted on Instagram that she’s pregnant, and apparently married.

Jennifer Lawrence has announced she is pregnant and expecting her first child with her husband, art dealer Cooke Maroney. A representative for the actor confirmed the news to People magazine, in a report published late on Wednesday.

Kylie Jenner has confirmed she is expecting her second child with rapper Travis Scott following weeks of speculation.

Actress Emma Roberts says her close friends helped her through her pregnancy during the Covid pandemic. "I feel so lucky because literally four of my close girlfriends were pregnant or have had a baby that year," Roberts said.

Indian Idol judge and popular Bollywood singer Neha Kakkar, who tied the nuptial knot with Rohanpreet Singh in October 2020, shared good news with her fans on Friday.

Nicki Minaj has a new release coming soon: her first child. The rapper took to Instagram on Monday to announce she is pregnant, posting photos of herself with a baby bump. One caption simply read: “#Preggers.”

Broadway actress Ruthie Ann Miles, who tragically lost her daughter and unborn child two years ago, is pregnant.

Sophie Turner pregnant with first child

February 14, 2020 09:01 am

‘Game of Thrones’ alum Sophie Turner and her husband, singer Joe Jonas, are expecting their first child together.

Actor Milla Jovovich on Thursday revealed she is expecting a girl with director-husband Paul WS Anderson.

When it's April Fool's day, everything should be taken with a pinch of salt and that's exactly what the fans should have done with Justin Bieber's baby announcement on Instagram.While Bieber's daddy news instantly got everybody excited, turns out it was just a prank.

Smoking even one cigarette a day during pregnancy can double the chance of sudden unexpected death for your baby, according to a new study analyzing over 20 million births, including over 19,000 unexpected infant deaths.

‘First-time Mom’ Experience

December 22, 2018 11:24 am

As a 29 year old married woman, who married her love, I am hapy. Being married for two years, we finally decided to have a baby but the road wasn’t easy. I have hashimoto thyroid, a condition which I have been dealing since my first menstruation. In order to conceive a baby I had to go through check up, take medication, lower my TSH level. We were determined and everything in place. After few months we were told we can finally conceive and following that month, I was pregnant. Never had I thought I would conceive so early.

SYDNEY, Oct 22: The pregnant wife of Britain’s Prince Harry, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will cut back her busy schedule as the royal couple enter the last week-and-a-half of their tour to Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific.

You are the captain of your boat

October 10, 2018 10:56 am

Dear Sadichha, I live and study in Melbourne. My father took a loan to send me here. As I am living alone, life is very hard to sustain. I work more than studying. Sometimes, I think I am defying my father’s debt, which led me to this foreign land. I work at a restaurant where; I work all day and my daily life has been depressing. However, I haven’t told my father what I do. He thinks I am working in a business corporation. I want to help my father clear his debt but I don’t even have money for rent. I can’t ask him for more money now knowing about the situation. Please tell me what to do.

PANCHTHAR, Sept 4: Three days after pregnant woman died while undergoing treatment, a version from a health post at Yangwarak rural municipality, that the deceased’s husband is reluctant to accept, conflict has erupted.

MUMBAI/SANGLI, Aug 5: An eight months pregnant woman from Satara was allegedly gang-raped by eight men in Sangli. The 20-year-old woman, along with her hotelier husband, had gone to Turchi Phata in Tasgaon for a business meeting.

SYANGJA, May 8: Bhirkot Municipality of the district has come up with a noble idea to attract pregnant women into a regular health check-up providing an egg each a day to the pregnant women who visit a health post on a regular basis.

BIRATNAGAR, April 2:  Sabiya Khatun, a six-month pregnant woman of Biratnagar-15 is brutally beaten by her husband almost every day. Her husband Mahaboob Ansari hardly spares her.

PANCHTHAR, March 30: A ward member of Falelung Rural Municipality-6 has been arrested on the charge of raping and impregnating a woman.

Expectant mothers in Nepal are trekking for days in rough conditions to glimpse their unborn children at Australian-run ultrasound clinics.

PARSA, Feb 1: Criminals dealing in narcotics have been found using pregnant women and new mothers in its trafficking.

Protest in Kalikot as pregnant woman dies

December 14, 2017 05:15 am

KALIKOT, Dec 14: Residents of Khandachakra Municipality-1protested in district headquarters on Tuesday after a pregnant woman died in hospital. The protestors accused doctors at the District Hospital of negligence and demanded action be taken against the doctor.

KATHMANDU, Nov 27: National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that senior citizens, people with disability and pregnant women were deprived of their voting rights as they could not walk to the polling stations which required hours-long walk.

Kylie Jenner reported pregnant

September 24, 2017 10:53 am

LOS ANGELES, Sept 24: Kylie Jenner, the youngest member of the celebrity Kardashian family, was reported on Friday to be pregnant. Celebrity news website TMZ, People magazine and Buzzfeed all quoted sources as saying that Jenner, 20, the half-sister of Kim Kardashian, is expecting a baby with her boyfriend, the rapper Travis Scott.

LONDON, September 7: Prince George went to school for the first time Thursday, but it was a rite of passage missed by his mother, who is struggling with acute morning sickness in the early stages of her third pregnancy.

I'm not pregnant: Nargis

August 27, 2017 09:52 am

MUMBAI, August 27: Bollywood actress Nargis Fakhri has taken a jibe at the pregnancy rumors and said that she is not expecting a baby.

NAWALPARASI, July 31: A female rhino was found dead at Amaltari of Kawasoti Municipality-17 of Nawalparasi district this morning.

BHOJPUR, July 17: An 11-year-old rape victim from Yaku in Arun Municipality-5 of Bhojpur district has been banished from her village after become pregnant.

Pregnant Beyonce Knowles poses nude

February 3, 2017 13:50 pm

Singer Beyonce Knowles has posed naked to celebrate her pregnancy, five years after the birth of her daughter Blue Ivy.

SOLUKHUMBU, Feb 3: A woman who could not undergo a normal delivery at a local primary health centre was airlifted by a doctor to the District Hospital, Phaplu for the delivery.

BAJHANG, Jan 31: Pregnant women and new mothers in over two dozen of VDCs in Bajhang district have been deprived of iodized salt as the salt has not been supplied to those areas. The women say they hardly have any idea about the salt. The government has limited the availability of iodized salt only to the district headquarters Chainpur, depriving locals of remote areas of the much-needed salt.

Women who suffer from urinary incontinence are at a higher risk of it getting worse after childbirth, a study suggests. According to the study, women who have not given birth are less likely to suffer from urinary incontinence compared to pregnant women.

Pregnant pause

October 25, 2016 00:45 am

Around 1,500 Nepali women died from pregnancy-related complications in 2015, according to the World Health Organization. Seven percent of them (105 women) would have died due to unsafe abortion.

TAPLEJUNG, Oct 14: A pregnant woman has died after a helicopter failed to pick her up due to adverse weather conditions from a remote district today.

BAITADI, Oct 13: A pregnant woman was killed after falling off a cliff at Dhuligadha area of Darchula on Wednesday.

MUMBAI, Sep 20: Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has rubbished reports that she would enact a pregnant woman in her forthcoming film "Veere Di Wedding".

GAUSHALA (Mahottari), Sept 1: A pregnant woman was killed when a private school compound wall collapsed and hit her at Pipara VDC in Mahottari district on Wednesday night.

In-laws thrash pregnant woman

August 21, 2016 23:00 pm

RAJBIRAJ, Aug 21: Chandra Kala Devi Mandal, 22, of Behli Chapeni has been undergoing treatment at Gajendra Narayan Singh Zonal Hospital at Rajbiraj after being abused by her family members.

RATNANAGAR, Aug 11: The District Public Health Office has distributed the medicated nets to 3,303 pregnant women through different 26 health organizations in Chitwan district.

A face representing "rolling on the floor laughing" and a hand taking a selfie are among 72 new emojis that will soon make their way to your smartphone.

ISLAMABAD, June 19: Police in Pakistan have arrested a mother suspected of killing her pregnant daughter for marrying against the wishes of her family, the latest in a series of so-called "honor killings" in the conservative Muslim country.