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

Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

Most babies are born in hospitals or birth centers – but if labor moves fast, it helps to be prepared. Here's how to stay ...

Letters: Olympia Bowman champions a middle way. Helen Style says the risks of giving birth without medical assistance are well known ...

Of all the decisions you'll make while pregnant, deciding where to give birth might be the most impactful. Hospitals, birthing centers, and home births all come with benefits and drawbacks; it just ...

Allegra Hill knew she wanted to be a midwife long before she knew exactly what the term meant. Her mother had delivered her with the help of a midwife, and “every birthday I would hear my birth story ...

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and a ...

A British woman is speaking out about the home birth of her baby girl, who weighed a whopping 12 pounds, 9 ounces. Ruth Harvey, 36, decided to welcome newborn Tabitha at her home in Ayrshire, Scotland ...