Almost one in five planned home births in Brighton and Haywards Heath could not be facilitated over the past year as the service was suspended 147 times. New mothers have told the BBC they have been ...

I just received the review of the book Pushed written by Noah Berlatsky [“The Obstetric-Industrial Complex,” June 29] and I cannot agree more with Mr. Berlatsky. We have had five children born in a ...

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.

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 mom who had a home birth was surprised to discover what her dog got up to while she was in labor, after watching a video of the event. Nichol Gerber chose to have her second child at home for the ...

Despite the noise from midwives and hospitals, the latest data on the number of home births in the U.S. show that very few women are giving birth outside of hospitals. But new CDC data do show that ...

Nichol Gerber discovered her faithful canine Penny silently observed her entire labor and delivery, hours after the event Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Minnesota lawmakers approved legislation requiring Medicaid to pay for home births, including paying nurses and midwives the same rate as doctors. The bill, sponsored by a state senator who gave a ...