Women who use water immersion during labor and birth experience better maternal and neonatal outcomes compared to those who ...

Jessica Beckwith gave birth to her daughter, Toren Bailey-Beckwith, last week in what looked like an oversized kiddy pool filled with 100-degree water. Beckwith, a University of Minnesota alumna, was ...

Water birth – in which a woman spends some or all of labour and delivery in a warm water pool – has become more popular as a gentler form of birthing. While its proponents claim it helps provide ...

In this difference-in-differences analysis, birth weight and other outcomes were unchanged after communities fluoridated their water. Changes in birth weight following community water fluoridation ...

Women who use water immersion during labour and birth experience better maternal and neonatal outcomes compared to those who receive epidural anesthesia, according to a study led by midwife Soledad ...

Columbia University study finds no link between fluoride in public water and changes in newborn health or pregnancy outcomes.

Map of Nitrate Measures in Public Water: Iowa (1970-1988). Figure 2 reports the median nitrate level in each month-year of all reported public water measures in Iowa (1970-1988). Each blue point is a ...