Fertility & pregnancy

Ruth Health, an American telehealth platform for women, announces its $2.4 million seed funding round led by Giant Ventures. The collective investment highlights the demand for accessible, inclusive and comprehensive prenatal and postpartum care for American women, bringing Ruth Health’s total funding to $3.1 million. Through its suite of remote patient services, including pelvic floor [...]

After researchers labelled the term 'morning sickness' as 'inaccurate', a pledge campaign is calling for the phrase to be replaced. Nausea and vomiting in pregnancy is usually called ‘morning sickness', but a recent study led by the University of Warwick has shown that the term tends to trivialise the condition. Symptoms have been described as [...]

As LatchAid raises £1m to grow its breastfeeding app, Dr Chen Mao Davies tells FemTech World how the company aims to support new mums on their journey. With an app that can show you everything you need to know, teaching new mums practical skills to help them breastfeed has never been easier. LatchAid is an [...]

The femtech company Pharmista Technologies is developing an eco-friendly pregnancy test, after being admitted to the SmiLe’s incubator program. The pregnancy test is the most widely used home diagnostic test in the world. Alice Mattsson, business developer, and her co-founder, Robert Porter, a researcher and entrepreneur, are developing a pregnancy test that can be easily [...]

Fairtility's Cristina Hickman tells us how AI could change the fertility world and what it would mean for thousands of aspiring parents.  In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is the most effective form of assisted reproductive technology. Due to the complexity of the procedure, however, prediction of embryonic implantation prior to IVF is key in decision-making. The [...]

As UK childcare costs account for 26 per cent of household income, fintech entrepreneur Mel Faxon explains why motherhood means that women can't have it all.  Mel joins me from her London coworking space. "Being able to walk over to someone's desk, especially when you're in a start-up, makes such a huge difference. I can't [...]

By replicating milk-producing cells of humans, an Israeli start-up is developing a sustainable breastfeeding alternative to offer nutritional support to infants.  Wilk develops technologies for producing cell-based milk secreted from mammary epithelial cells, which are found in the mammary glands of both humans and animals. After collecting the mammary gland tissue, the milk-producing cells are [...]

UK start-up, EveryBaby has appointed Angela Spang as its new CEO with the aim of getting this point-of-care instrument to professionals as quickly as possible. EveryBaby is an innovative preterm diagnostic device that uses impedance spectroscopy to identify changes in cervical tissue when a mother is approaching birth. It provides real-time information that is more [...]

The campaign is their second with Mother London

the UK has some of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world with eight out of ten women stopping before they want to.