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," ...

Comparing my two completely different unmedicated births! From a peaceful water birth with my first baby to an unexpectedly fast hospital birth with my second - sharing every detail of both ...

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.

When Kimberly Kleoppel envisioned the birth of her fourth baby, she pictured warm lighting and a birthing tub. She wanted it to go a lot like the birth of her third baby. Kleoppel delivered a girl at ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...