Globe-trotting couple Max & Maya document their unmedicated water birth from home, capturing the raw and intimate experience.

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

Madera lacks a maternity ward and Planned Parenthood, forcing travel to Fresno. Home births rose after 2023 reopening; midwives handle low-risk cases. Cost and lack of insurers drive unassisted births ...

For one Georgia-based mom, bringing her daughter home after a long stay in the NICU was the "best gift ever." Mary Barthell, ...

Home births have been suspended for 24 hours by the trust over "staffing challenges" A health trust has suspended its home birth service for 24 hours after "significant levels of sickness" among staff ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

A health trust has suspended its home birth service for 24 hours after "significant levels of sickness" among staff. The East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, which covers most of East Sussex, said ...

Baby Haven Bautista Cervantes was born at Madera Community Hospital on Sept. 8, 2025, the first baby delivered at the hospital since before it closed for over two years back in January of 2023. Madera ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

CHENNAI – Dr Teres Cuba looked at a mother who had just given birth to a baby, lying on the stretcher. A nurse yelled that she was losing blood quickly. “Her blood pressure and pulse rate are dropping ...

SEOUL – The number of babies born between January and September surpassed 190,000, marking the largest year-on-year increase in 18 years, government data showed on Nov 26. According to the Ministry of ...