Senate passes bill giving pregnant women more birthing options. Pregnant women in Kentucky may soon have another option when it comes to labor and delivery: free-standing birthing centers. Northern ...

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The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

Kentucky passed House Bill 90 to reduce barriers for establishing freestanding birthing centers, which have been absent in the state since the 1980s. The new law removes the certificate of need ...

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center, the only free-standing birthing center in the state since 1997, recently changed hands as national trends show that these types of facilities are growing ...

Midwife Danielle Ray, right, discusses infant safety at the Tree of Life birth center with, from left, Senators Shelley Funke Frommeyer, Lindsey Tichenor and Adrienne Southworth. (Kentucky Lantern ...

Following the closure of Copley Hospital’s birthing center last month, expecting moms remain concerned over the distance to ...

Doctor checks on pregnant patient. Connecticut mothers will soon have more choices as to where they have their baby delivered in the state. Gov. Ned Lamont has signed legislation allowing ...

DANBURY, Connecticut (WABC) -- Expecting mothers in Connecticut will soon have more options for where to seek maternal health care. New legislation signed into law by Gov. Ned Lamont sets up licensing ...