Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

Most babies are born in hospitals or birth centers – but if labor moves fast, it helps to be prepared. Here's how to stay calm and keep your baby safe.

A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

Letters: Olympia Bowman champions a middle way. Helen Style says the risks of giving birth without medical assistance are well known ...

Birthing centers, which offer natural, low-intervention births to low-risk moms, are becoming more and more popular. But regardless of demand, they’re struggling to stay open. When Kimberly Kleoppel ...

Laurel Gourrier, 35, is a doula and one of the women behind the podcast Birth Stories in Color, which she co-hosts with Danielle Jackson. Her first child was delivered in a hospital, an experience she ...

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and a ...