With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely.

Throughout the pandemic, Chrissy Owens and Ildiko Baugus have seen an increase in interest for the work they do. The women, both certified midwives, co-own EVa Home Birth. Their practice, with ...

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.

Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

From Left: Midwives Helena Grant, Martine Jean-Baptiste and Alexis Dunn Amore. While they earned the respect of their communities and occasionally the public at large, midwives were simultaneously ...

In the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played ...

Senior certified professional midwife students Samantha Woolman, left, and Louise Zook clean off Chelsey Montogmery-Gusta’s newborn baby boy Dec. 5, 2022, while Shiphrah Birth Services Owner and CPM ...