The closest hospital to where Warner lives is Kaiser Permanente Fresno Medical Center in North Fresno, which is normally a 15-minute drive. But with the new housing developments in Madera, traffic has ...

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 ...

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 ...

In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center birth, a national study led by Oregon State University researchers has ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mother who died along with her baby after choosing to have a home birth might have been saved if she was taken to hospital earlier, a coroner has found. Jennifer Cahill, 34, died at North Manchester ...

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 ...

It sounds great. Give birth at home, surrounded by only those you know and trust, and avoid unnecessary interventions in the birth process. If you’ve seen The Business of Being Born, talk show host ...

A mom ended up defying gender norms by driving herself back from the hospital hours after giving birth while her partner napped in the backseat. Birth plans play an important role in improving the ...

When Kimberly Kleoppel envisioned the birth of her fourth baby, she pictured warm lighting and a birthing tub. She wanted it to go a lot like the birth of her third baby. Kleoppel delivered a girl at ...