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.

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, ...

Giving birth is a wonderful experience, but it can also be exhausting, scary, and traumatic for some women, which is why they might need the support of their partner. Even if their significant other ...

For patients, the goal is simple: reduced morbidity and mortality for those who give birth. More than 800 individuals died due to birthing-related causes in the US in 2022, the latest tabulation in ...

A movement may be underway that offers a path toward a birthing revolution that works from within the current healthcare system. The profound impact this particular method had on Ron to release fear ...

A 2023 medical journal article by doctors in Ethiopia described another abdominal pregnancy in which the mother and baby ...

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A sign in support of the Copley Birthing Center in Morrisville on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. Photo by Kristen Fountain/VTDigger Copley Hospital will close its birthing center, the hospital announced in ...