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

My wife, Pippa, gave birth like a giraffe, standing up. I was astonished. This wasn’t quite the nativity scene I’d imagined. Then again, I should not have been too shocked. Pippa grew up in South ...

ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played ...

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 the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

Confident and unafraid — not many mothers would describe their feelings during childbirth with these words, but they are the words Charissa Peterson uses to describe giving birth to her youngest ...

Throughout the pandemic, Chrissy Owens and Ildiko Baugus have seen an increase in interest for the work they do. The women, both certified midwives, co-own EVa Home Birth. Their practice, with ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 7. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. I loved the beginning of the episode where we see the ...

The Greene family is welcomed into Clarisa Evans’ cozy at-home examination room. A plate of strawberries and blueberries and a pitcher of water waits for the expecting parents on a small table ...

Senior certified professional midwife students Samantha Woolman, left, and Louise Zook clean off Chelsey Montogmery-Gusta’s newborn baby boy Dec. 5, 2022, while Shiphrah Birth Services Owner and CPM ...

A resurgence of traditional midwifery is bringing deliveries back home The post Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds ...