Long before hospitals were accessible to many Black families in Maryland, grand midwives were delivering babies, supporting ...

I became a midwife after working as a doula for 10 years. I came into the work with the knowledge and concern for the lack of safety that is espoused to Black women and birthing people that I ...

After 25 years as a midwife in the U.K., Dumbuya returned to her homeland to help run a state-of-the-art maternity center ...

If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife-led birth centers, the nation’s C-section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current twin trend of rising health ...

A growing number of women are opting for home births. But when issues arise during labor, transferring to a hospital can be ...

Getty Israel is a population health expert, author, writer, mother and CEO of Sisters in Birth midwifery clinic located in Jackson, Mississippi. Since the Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, ...

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 ...

MOORHEAD (AP) -- After 20 years of helping mothers give birth in their homes, a midwife has opened Minnesota's first out-of-hospital birth center. The center, called The Stork's Nest, is designed for ...

Staff at the North Shore Birth Center on the campus of Beverly Hospital say they've delivered their last baby. The center was the only stand-alone midwife-led birth center currently delivering babies ...

After 25 years as a midwife in the U.K., Dumbuya returned to her homeland to help run a state-of-the-art maternity center ...