In San Francisco, a routine rush to the maternity ward turned into a world first when a woman delivered her baby in the back ...

There were also no beds available in the hospital's maternity ward after she delivered her baby, the woman said 9 News Australia/Youtube A pregnant woman was forced to give birth on a couch in a ...

A woman in San Francisco went into labor in the backseat of a driverless taxi and delivered her baby before the car reached the hospital, turning a routine ride into a test of how autonomous vehicles ...

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.” By Adam Nossiter Michel Odent, a French ...

Standing in front of an empty lot one afternoon in the Georgia heat, Katie Chubb gestures to the place where she's been trying to open a birth center for six years. "We'd have parking along the road," ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon — In the largest national study of its kind, Oregon State University researchers found that low-risk, planned home births are as safe as planned births at accredited birth centers.

Medical intervention in human birth has become so widespread that spontaneous delivery is an increasingly rare event. Yet convincing evidence reveals an underlying 24-hour biorhythm, reflecting a ...

Ms Helena Leonhartsberger, a medical student and research team member in the neonatology department at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. Vienna, Austria: The first detailed analysis of ...

Across the nation, a growing number of expectant mothers are opting for an alternative approach to birth: midwifery. According to a 2023 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the ...