A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center birth, a national study led by Oregon State University researchers has ...

Despite the noise from midwives and hospitals, the latest data on the number of home births in the U.S. show that very few women are giving birth outside of hospitals. But new CDC data do show that ...

Giving birth at home or in the car when you were planning on making it to the hospital or birth center? Totally not the plan ...

A new study by academics in Trinity College Dublin has found that there is a strong positive relationship between planned birth at home and breast feeding: breastfeeding was twice as likely after ...

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 ...

When Kimberly Kleoppel envisioned the birth of her fourth baby, she pictured warm lighting and a birthing tub. She wanted it to go a lot like the birth of her third baby. Kleoppel delivered a girl at ...

Almost one in five planned home births in Brighton and Haywards Heath could not be facilitated over the past year as the service was suspended 147 times. New mothers have told the BBC they have been ...

A mom ended up defying gender norms by driving herself back from the hospital hours after giving birth while her partner napped in the backseat. Birth plans play an important role in improving the ...