A low-intervention labor and delivery room is seen at LMH Health. When Mary Pawlowski learned she was pregnant in February 2024, she knew that she wanted to have a nonmedicated birth experience. She ...

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 ...

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...

Our country is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis. Too many women, particularly Black and Hispanic women, are at risk of dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. And with women’s ...

A movement may be underway that offers a path toward a birthing revolution that works from within the current healthcare system. The profound impact this particular method had on Ron to release fear ...

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 ...

For home births to "laughing gas," more women are tailoring their deliveries. — -- Giving birth is the most primal act in a woman’s life. And yet, modern medicine has turned birthing into a ...

Through October, Kipp Bovey and her fellow nurse midwives closely tracked the patients whose due dates would come close to the Nov. 1 closure of the birthing center at Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...