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

Cathy Gordon of Shawnee, far right, gives her daughter-in-law, Emma Gordon, a look at her unborn baby via a sonogram as Emma’s husband, Matt Gordon, and their daughter, Hadley Gordon, gleefully look ...

Activists are celebrating the legalization of home-birth midwives this week in Alabama, where Gov. Kay Ivey signed the long-fought-for Childbirth Freedom Act into law on Wednesday night after it ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (WHNT) – Douglas Stevenson came to The Farm ...

“Birth is much more than bringing the baby safely to the outside,” said Ronda Perea. “It is a powerful spiritual journey that shapes individuals and empowers women.” Perea’s downtown Santa Barbara ...

With the closing of Bryn Mawr’s Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center, women have lost an important maternity option.

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

As the Amos report into maternal and neonatal safety finds an unacceptable standard of care in many wards. Radhika Sanghani and Victoria Young look at what happens when care is found wanting – and how ...

Christine Kroce, a nurse at The Midwife Center, located in the Strip District, demonstrates one way a woman would use a birthing swing while maintaining an upright labor or delivery. After months of ...

A resurgence of traditional midwifery is bringing deliveries back home The post Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds ...

Jessa Duggar’s (now Seewald) new baby boy is only 2 weeks old, and the dust still hasn’t settled from the reality star’s complicated home birth. During baby Spurgeon’s home birth on Nov. 5, Jessa was ...