A Sandhills area midwife is seeking review of the dismissal of her challenge to Nebraska statutes that prohibit certified ...

Nationwide, fewer than 2 percent of births attended by certified midwives occur at home, according to ACNM. But in Montana and across the nation, the number of babies delivered by midwives is on the ...

PHOENIX — As the number of mothers choosing to give birth outside of a hospital quickly grows in Arizona, some maternity and public health experts are calling to update rules for non-nurse midwives.

Even before Diana Castro Cook became pregnant, she knew she wanted to give birth with the help of a midwife when the time came. She had experienced midwifery with her former roommate, who had given ...

Across rural North Carolina, women drive an hour or more for routine prenatal care and they endure long commutes when it's time to give birth. Some midwives say that they could provide those women ...

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.

A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

As a doula, Sage Thomas attended a home birth where the family integrated Indigenous ceremonial practices. She’s now ...

There’s nothing more natural than being born. There’s also nothing quite as fraught. A whole lot can go wrong during that long and tortuous journey from the womb to the world. Modern medicine can ...