Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier this ...

The Free Birth Society advised pregnant women to avoid doctors and midwives, with deadly consequences. The bigger tragedy is the brutal system the women were so desperate to flee. Jennifer Block is an ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Ellyard explained that paramedics arrived on scene and found Hatfield “looking yellow and ...

Emergency medical service providers Nancy Noot, left, and Taylor Clark, right, with Community Volunteer EMS of LaMoure, recently received the EMS for Children Early Bird Award. They helped deliver ...

DETROIT (WXYZ) — A newborn baby who was initially believed to have been dropped off on the porch of a Detroit home on Thursday night is the baby of a teenage girl ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Madera lacks a maternity ward and Planned Parenthood, forcing travel to Fresno. Home births rose after 2023 reopening; midwives handle low-risk cases. Cost and lack of insurers drive unassisted births ...

The story of Mercedes Wells went viral this week, after video showed the mom being led out of a hospital in Indiana despite saying she was in labor. Minutes after leaving, she gave birth on the side ...

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...