A woman who gave birth at home without a midwife present during a suspension of NHS home birth services said she was ...

LOS ANGELES Pasadena mother Joya Roy comes from a medical family. Her father is professor of gynecology at USC. Her mother is a registered nurse. So it came as a bit of a surprise when Joya decided to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We connected with midwives and other birth professionals to help us understand the appeal of free birth—and why its risky. Free ...

Abbey Khopesh, 29, from Raymond, Nebraska, had an unassisted, sovereign birth for her first daughter and is doing the same ...

SK: What changes did you make before your second was born? Did you go into that birth thinking that you would do things differently? Amy: The one thing I really wanted to do differently was let my ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malcolm Kempt and 'A Gift Before Dying' Leanne Pitcher Photography; Crown When the pandemic restrictions effectively ended my law ...

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.

Krissy Rich had been in active labor for five hours on the floor of her Fremont bathroom when she daughter Jasrael descend. To ease the pressure, Rich reached her fingernail inside and popped her ...

BOSTON (AP) -- Women do not open themselves to criminal charges by giving birth without medical assistance, the highest court in Massachusetts said Friday as it ruled in the case of a Milford woman ...

SK: What were your older kids doing during your labor? Amy: They were wonderful. They fell asleep on the bed watching their movie while I labored in the tub nearby. My daughter actually woke up, got ...