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 – and definitely not common, despite what TV dramas would have you believe.

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

Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, ...

Black mothers in the U.S. are particularly at risk, National Geographic reports. "Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...

Streamer Fandy made Twitch history this week by being the first person to livestream their birth on the app. On Tuesday (Oct. 7), the Austin, Texas-based streamer with 370,000 followers, filmed ...