Developed countries have seen rising rates of medical interventions during labor and delivery. A team of investigators from Australia studied how a new approach to prenatal childbirth education ...

Natural Birth Isn't Just Pushing: Pregnancy care begins with conception and it is not limited to childbirth alone. A birthing parent goes through significant physical, emotional and psychological ...

A doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a mother before, during, and shortly after childbirth. Unlike midwives or obstetricians, ...

Planning for labor and delivery means thinking through your options – and for some moms-to-be, that includes going medication-free. "If your goal is a medication-free delivery, that is absolutely ...

The expectation and reality of the birth of my daughter could not have been more different. While I'd read over and over again that having a birth plan was mostly silly, given how rarely things go as ...

Picture giving birth. Where does your mind take you? To images of stark, sterile hospitals with strip lighting and a person clad in a cold blue gown, legs akimbo, face drenched in sweat and howling ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - It’s been nearly three months since Intermountain Health announced the Bloomin’ Babies Birth center is closing, the only natural birthing center in western Colorado. The ...