More than nine in ten babies in the UK are born in hospital, but rates of home births are rising. Advocates say there are many advantages to delivery outside a medical setting: You’re in the comfort ...

A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Granger Howard and published in JAMA Pediatrics compared the health outcomes of planned hospital births vs. planned community births (i.e., ...

More people who want to give birth at home or without doctors and surgeries are going to Reddit, Instagram, and YouTube to both give and get medical guidance. This unvetted, high-risk content could ...

Becoming a mother should never feel like a gamble, yet where a woman lives still shapes her odds of surviving childbirth more than almost any other factor. Across the globe, the gap between the safest ...

Amid a rise in home births, mistrust between midwives and hospitals can put mothers and babies at risk. With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room ...

If you're looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you'll find widely varied content. On the one hand, you'll find women who develop a relationship with their ...