The moment you find out you’re pregnant, the questions start flooding in. One of the biggest decisions you’ll face is how you want to deliver your baby. With C-section rates climbing and natural birth ...

A doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a mother before, during, and shortly after childbirth. Unlike midwives or obstetricians, ...

More babies are being born by caesarean section in England than delivered naturally - without assistance - for the first time ...

In recent years, the conversation around childbirth has started to change. Many women today are asking questions, reading more, and actively exploring how they want to give birth. Natural birthing, ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — The Natural Birth House is a midwife maternity care facility that strives to provide top tier care that is individualized to each specific pregnancy. Statistics show that women ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - It’s been nearly three months since Intermountain Health announced the Bloomin’ Babies Birth center is closing, the only natural birthing center in western Colorado. The ...

EMMA CUSDEN had always assumed she would give birth naturally. But once she became pregnant that calm assumption quickly ...

Planning for labor and delivery means thinking through your options – and for some moms-to-be, that includes going medication-free. "If your goal is a medication-free delivery, that is absolutely ...

Natural family planning, barriers, hormonal methods, copper IUDs, and permanent sterilization have varying degrees of effectiveness. Family planning involves tracking fertility cycles and sexual ...

They're called low-intervention birthing rooms, and Willowbrook Methodist opened them a few years ago as a test—a way to ...

A Seattle stay-at-home mom who sang through labor to deliver her son as her husband played guitar says she hardly experienced pain -- it "felt like a vacation." Brandon Hell / SWNS She wanted to B ...