Birthing centers, which offer natural, low-intervention births to low-risk moms, are becoming more and more popular. But regardless of demand, they’re struggling to stay open. When Kimberly Kleoppel ...

Some women may choose to experience childbirth as a natural event, using no medications at all. Instead, they use techniques like controlled breathing for pain or relaxation. The mother feels like she ...

A person may choose to give birth naturally, without pain management medication, or with an epidural to block sensations of pain in the lower body. Each birthing option has its potential risks and ...

Are you weighing home birth vs hospital birth? Follow one woman’s journey through both childbirth options, and learn what questions to ask midwife. Deciding where your baby will be born can have a ...

From start (when to conceive) to finish (how to deliver), pregnancy is full of personal choices. No matter how you deliver — unmedicated, with an epidural, via an induction, or by C-section — you ...

Though it responds to a justified distrust of the medical establishment among women, it also subtly partakes of an insidious mythology. Pregnant women are everywhere, but in a way it’s hard to see ...

Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...

A birth educator has sparked an important (and overdue) conversation on TikTok after she shared a clip revealing what really counts as a 'natural birth'. Posting a video for her 131.3k followers, ...

LAFAYETTE, La. – Elizabeth Capdepon had her heart set on natural childbirth when she delivered her baby boy, William, in April. She knew he would be a big baby. If she realized he would come into this ...