Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

As a midwife, Rebekah Knapp has been attending home births for nearly 15 years. She's delivered 230 babies. She has worked with other midwives and has taken training at the Midwifery Institute of ...

The word 'midwife' dates back to Middle English, but the role of midwifery extends to modern day. The term midwife originally referred to a woman who was "with" another woman giving birth, but ...

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

As a certified nurse midwife, Cosette Boone has delivered hundreds of Iowa babies to mothers who wanted an alternative to giving birth at a hospital. For seven years Boone's Healing Passages Birth and ...

ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

It was a little after 6 p.m. on Sunday, August 15, 2021, and things were about to get real. The mild discomfort I had been feeling for days was suddenly noticeable enough to stop me in my tracks: I ...

The rise in home births amongst Black women represents a small step in reclaiming their power in maternal health care. (Photo: Adobe Stock) The rise in home births amongst Black women represents a ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The state plans to take away an Arizona midwife’s license after a Safford mother and baby died during childbirth. It happened after they were in her care for a home birth in ...