"We trusted the professionals who were guiding us, and [the newborn] should have had the safest possible start in her life," ...

Promoters of free birthing reject any type of medical intervention during pregnancy or delivery. The movement has been ...

Seven-day-old Poppy Hope Lomas died after complications during home birth encouraged by midwives at Barnet hospital ...

Gemma Lomas said she had trusted NHS workers who were guiding her home birth and that her daughter Poppy, who died a week ...

Though no one is tracking medically unassisted births in Canada, infant mortality data from the Ontario coroner, the ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

Home births have been suspended in a county following safety concerns raised by staff. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust said the suspension is due to last for two weeks, but trust leaders warned it ...

I just received the review of the book Pushed written by Noah Berlatsky [“The Obstetric-Industrial Complex,” June 29] and I cannot agree more with Mr. Berlatsky. We have had five children born in a ...

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 ...