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 ...

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 ...

"I feel like the Central Valley in general is a birth desert," says Lacy Lisbon, a Fresno-based midwife.

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, ...

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 ...

Krissy Rich had been in active labor for five hours on the floor of her Fremont bathroom when she daughter Jasrael descend. To ease the pressure, Rich reached her fingernail inside and popped her ...

A British woman is speaking out about the home birth of her baby girl, who weighed a whopping 12 pounds, 9 ounces. Ruth Harvey, 36, decided to welcome newborn Tabitha at her home in Ayrshire, Scotland ...