He added, “If you love your baby he or she is getting a good start.” The maternal landscape has changed substantially since ...

A Washington woman gave birth on a fireboat after she went into labor on Anderson Island, a small island in Puget Sound. The ...

If you've heard or come across the term free birth, or unassisted birth, in parenting communities recently, you might be ...

Nia Trent-Wilson owes $182,889.63 in medical bills for a baby that wasn’t hers. In late 2021, she agreed to act as a surrogate through an agency that paired her with a gay couple from Washington, D.C.

Childbirth has transformed from Christ's manger (left) to incubators (right), giving mothers and newborns a fighting chance to live. The temperature reading on one of the incubators at the newborn ...

BEAUFORT – Federal regulators cited Beaufort Memorial Hospital in a report that detailed a woman giving birth in its parking lot. Inspectors with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found ...

In the U.S., teen birth rates are at historic lows. The overall birth rate has also declined, but women in one age group are having more babies - women in their 40s. Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga of the ...

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 ...

Having a baby isn't all cuddles and coos. The postpartum period is marked by sleepless nights, upturned schedules, hormone shifts – and sometimes severe depression and anxiety. Adding to all that is ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

Earlier this month, Mercedes Wells was ready to give birth at Franciscan Health Hospital in Crown Point, Indiana, when staff turned her away, saying that she would have to come back later because she ...

Alena Wells could have entered the world surrounded by her family and medical professionals. Instead, she was born on Nov. 16 in the front seat of a Chevrolet Silverado as her father, Leon Wells, ...