If you're looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you'll find widely varied content.

After reopening its doors in January 2023, the Madera Community Hospital is still without a maternity ward, and as a result of funding cuts from the "Big Beautiful Bill," the only Mar Monte Planned ...

A hospital trust has extended its suspension of home births by at least six months due to safety concerns over staffing ...

Early in pregnancy, Molly Ercole already had an idea of what she wanted for her childbirth. "I didn't want to see a different doctor at every appointment," says Ercole, a non-profit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...