A doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a mother before, during, and shortly after childbirth. Unlike midwives or obstetricians, ...

For many expectant mothers, childbirth is one of the most significant experiences of their lives. While hospital deliveries ...

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 ...

Making informed decisions about childbirth represents one of the most significant choices expectant parents face. While both vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections safely bring babies into the world ...

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 ...

Michel Odent, a French obstetrician whose natural childbirth innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, aimed to make new mothers feel calm and secure, died Aug. 19 in London.

More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a “more comfortable and happy event” is being slighted in the current craze for “natural childbirth,” says a team of four Baltimore ...