The mother of a newborn baby who suffered extensive brain damage during a home birth has told an inquest "inexperienced" midwives were "scrambled together" due to staffing shortages. Pippa Gillibrand ...

A maternity unit is set to reopen and home births resume, but services might be cut elsewhere.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oct. 29—Midwives empower a family during the arrival of a baby, allowing the mother to give birth in the comfort of her own home, ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Indeed, an underground culture of home births, assisted by illegal midwives, thrives in North Carolina among women who seek an alternative to what they perceive as a sterile, mechanized and unhealthy ...

A MOTHER was given her “blue and floppy” newborn and told “there’s your baby” by a midwife after a traumatic home birth, an ...

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. (NEWS10) —More options for moms in the Capital Region are on the way. This comes as experts say access to ...