Giving birth at home or in the car when you were planning on making it to the hospital or birth center? Totally not the plan ...

There are many options for giving birth — using an epidural, going unmedicated, hiring a doula or midwife, or delivering in a ...

CHILDBIRTH AT HOME. BABY DARCY IS ALL SMILES, SNUGGLED IN MOM’S LAP IN THEIR WESTBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS, HOME. HOME IS WHERE MOM EXPERIENCED A HEALING HAND. BE ABLE TO GET HOSPITAL LEVEL CARE, BUT IN ...

More women giving birth at home despite increasing risk Medical journalist Elizabeth Cohen reports on the growing concern of women giving birth at home and the additional risk to the mother and child.

After thanking her birth team and her “incredible teammate” Joshua, Ryan expressed how mesmerized they are by the miracle of ...

More than nine in ten babies in the UK are born in hospital, but rates of home births are rising. Advocates say there are many advantages to delivery outside a medical setting: You’re in the comfort ...

It was a little after 6 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, and things were about to get real. The mild discomfort I had been feeling for days was suddenly noticeable enough to stop me in my tracks: I was ...

Growing dissatisfaction with hospital birthing processes and its mistreatment of women are causing a small but growing number to choose home births instead. Exhausted after giving birth to her ...

Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, ...

Their shared pregnancy journey was so similar, it came with the same serious medical diagnosis. But a new campaign at ...