Most water births happen in softly lit rooms, with midwives, tubs, and carefully calibrated temperatures. This one began in a ...

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

One midwife laughed at me when I begged for pain relief, saying I didn’t have a clue what real pain was and that the worst ...

Founded in 2009, the Santa Barbara Birth Center provides personalized, midwifery-led care for families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

A new law is aimed at supporting doula and lactation workers, but many say the success of those reforms depends on whether the state can fix persistent payment problems ...

A coroner's court has heard Melbourne nutrition influencer Stacey Warnecke died from a postpartum haemorrhage following a ...

November 8 and 26 were the busiest days of the month with 12 babies being welcomed into the world on each day day. Every ...

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SAN FRANCISCO ( KRON) – A driverless Waymo vehicle turned into a temporary birthing center when a woman gave birth to a baby ...

In the past month alone, unusual births have made headlines across the country: a baby girl nicknamed “Little Buc-ee” arrived ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Across the U.S., pregnant women suffer from miscarriages, stillbirths — sometimes even death — in local jails. In this investigation by Bloomberg Law and NBC News, correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian ...