A woman who almost died during childbirth at home alongside her baby said she has no regrets – and would still advocate for ...

Free birthing' describes the intentional choice to give birth without a registered healthcare professional present ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The footage was not professional,” Scudder tells Yahoo Life. “It was captured on an iPhone by the backup midwife as my son was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...