HB 2251 would allow non-nurse midwives to dispense additional medications, including antibiotics and drugs to stop ...

A verdict of medical misadventure has been recorded at the inquest into a woman who died after giving birth to a baby boy ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Women choosing to give birth at-home is drastically on the rise, according to the CDC. In Indiana, two to three percent of births happen at home. It’s the highest amount since ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The footage was not professional,” Scudder tells Yahoo Life. “It was captured on an iPhone by the backup midwife as my son was ...

When contractions started in the middle of an ordinary day in Wisconsin, a math teacher expecting a routine hospital delivery ...

Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier this year. The temporary closure at Yeovil District Hospital over safety ...

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 ...

For some families, giving birth at home feels natural, intimate, and culturally aligned. Others are drawn to it because of high hospital costs, fear of unnecessary interventions, or a desire for ...

Criteria for selecting studies were as follows. For the required population, pregnant women attempted home birth, meaning that they were accepted for a planned home birth at the onset of labour. The ...