TRIGGER WARNING: This post contains information about stillbirth and infant loss, which may be triggering to some. A 17-year-old mother allegedly gave birth to her baby boy at home, and somehow the ...

Before Ivey Cross was ever expecting, she was glued to TikTok videos of women describing their experiences of giving birth at home. Twenty-five weeks into her own pregnancy, she decided to do so ...

An 11-year-old Oklahoma girl’s mother and stepfather are jailed on felony neglect charges after the youngster gave birth at home with no medical or prenatal care, prosecutors said Sunday. The parents ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon — In the largest national study of its kind, Oregon State University researchers found that low-risk, planned home births are as safe as planned births at accredited birth centers.

A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Granger Howard and published in JAMA Pediatrics (the highest-ranked journal in the field) compared the health outcomes of planned hospital ...

After a gradual decline from 1990 to 2004, a new study published online in Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care finds that United States births occurring at home increased by 20 percent between 2004 and ...