There are many options for giving birth — using an epidural, going unmedicated, hiring a doula or midwife, or delivering in a ...

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 ...

If you're looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you'll find widely varied content. On the one hand, you'll find women who develop a relationship with their ...

A new study by academics in Trinity College Dublin has found that there is a strong positive relationship between planned birth at home and breast feeding: breastfeeding was twice as likely after ...

Giving birth at home or in the car when you were planning on making it to the hospital or birth center? Totally not the plan ...

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 ...

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

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 ...

In the charming children's book, “Baby, Come Out!” written by Fran Manushkin, the author weaves a tale of a baby's desire to stay safe in the confines of her mother's womb. Through much coaching, the ...

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," ...