A growing number of families are choosing home births, often seeking a more personal and comfortable environment during labor. But when complications arise, and a hospital transfer becomes necessary, ...

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

Although midwives have long been associated with home births, roughly 90 percent of midwife-attended births in the U.S. now occur in hospitals. At NYU Langone Health, midwives are fully integrated ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely.

The birth of a baby is often celebrated as a joyful and natural process, but it can also be physically and emotionally traumatic. The Perinatal Trauma Clinic at Oregon Health & Science University is ...

More than 35 clinicians practiced positioning techniques designed to help release tension in muscles and ligaments.

As home births become more popular, midwives and medical experts stress the importance of clear emergency plans.