A water birth is thought to be a gentle welcome to the world for baby, but it's important that you know exactly when it's safe to labor in water and when it isn't.

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An NHS trust said the birthing pool at one of its hospitals will be temporarily suspended for necessary improvements to the ...

February 2, 2011 — New guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Committee on Obstetric Practice outline recommendations for women who are planning at-home births. The ...

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and a ...

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 ...

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.

Criteria for selecting studies were as follows. For the required population, pregnant women attempted home birth, meaning that they were accepted for a planned home birth at the onset of labour. The ...

The vast majority of children in the United States are born in a hospital, but the number of planned home births has gone up significantly in the past few years. At the root of this growing trend is ...