In September 1979, two experienced divers entered Jacob’s Well in Texas, pushing beyond the last “safe” chamber into a narrow gravel-filled passage known as the birth canal. They were never seen again ...

A kangaroo experiences the miracle of birth in an intimate wildlife moment.

Olympia Bowman champions a middle way. Helen Style says the risks of giving birth without medical assistance are well known After listening to the Guardian podcast series the Birth Keepers, I feel ...

I have been reading exposés about the free birth movement for nearly as long as I have been covering women’s health. The movement’s adherents are women who give birth without trained medical ...

Through October, Kipp Bovey and her fellow nurse midwives closely tracked the patients whose due dates would come close to the Nov. 1 closure of the birthing center at Copley Hospital in Morrisville.

A video showing a cockapoo’s first day at doggy day care has gone viral on TikTok—and this time it isn’t for the usual chaos of excitable pups. Instead, it captures the opposite: a dog looking ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Missoula Birth Center, located on the Community Medical Center campus, is now open, according to officials. The privately-owned birthing center is run by Origin Health and offers ...

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- A new birthing center planned for south Louisville is on hold because of recent federal cuts to Medicaid. The $20 million "Birthing Place" project at UofL Health – Mary & ...

Newport Hospital’s Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center, Gateway Healthcare and Samuels Sinclair Dental Center will remain open. Brown Health, facing financial pressures, had considered closing the ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...

Why is it so expensive to give birth in America? In a word: supply. America needs to deliver better results for our mothers and children. Fortunately, a solution is in plain sight: let urgent care ...