A newborn baby in Australia died after her mother delivered her in a ‘home-birthing’ pool hired from freebirth-promoting influencer Emily Lal. As per the findings of the Coroners Court of Victoria, it ...

The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent "wild birth," or free birth, last week has prompted fresh concerns about giving birth without a midwife or medical assistance. This follows ...

Of all the decisions you'll make while pregnant, deciding where to give birth might be the most impactful. Hospitals, birthing centers, and home births all come with benefits and drawbacks; it just ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sharing footage of a home birth can be "empowering." But can society handle it? (Getty Creative) (ideabug via Getty Images) "The ...

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 ...