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 ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Baby Haven Bautista Cervantes was born at Madera Community Hospital on Sept. 8, 2025, the first baby delivered at the hospital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier this ...

Kāla Noel captured this image of the Wagar family welcoming their baby at a planned home birth. Photo shared by Melissa Cheyney, professor in the OSU College of Liberal Arts and a licensed midwife.

The story so far: In late June, a Tamil Nadu woman, 32, died from a postpartum haemorrhage and other complications. According to the police, the woman died after a medically unassisted birth at home ...

Madera County resident Glory Warner was born at home in the 1990s. Now, she's nearing her due date and wants to do the same with her baby. Warner says that she romanticized the idea of a home birth ...