The popularity of home births has increased in recent years, although they remain a tiny proportion of all births, at around ...

Within two to three weeks after giving birth, mothers and babies receive an at-home health screening, with nurses offering ...

A rural California hospital that closed its maternity ward in 2022 plans to open a birth center and standby maternity ward next year as part of a pilot program ...

A hospital trust has suspended home births for two weeks after staff raised safety concerns. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS ...

A small but increasing number of women are choosing to give birth at home – and hospitals are finding new ways to make it a ...

Globe-trotting couple Max and Maya share a peaceful home birth experience far from city noise.

Every year, a group of Oregon health care professionals gathers for a grim exercise — reviewing every case in which a mother died during or soon after pregnancy.

Three years after closing its maternity ward, a new state law will help a rural Northern California hospital bring birth services back to the community.

A coroner has issued a warning over the dangers of home births after a 34-year-old mum and her newborn baby both died following an at-home delivery last year ...

ANOTHER document scandal has rocked the Department of Home Affairs in KwaZulu-Natal. This time, birth certificates were ...