There are many options for giving birth — using an epidural, going unmedicated, hiring a doula or midwife, or delivering in a ...

Julia Blumenthal awakens with a jolt. It’s around 4 a.m. and her cellphone is buzzing. A slew of text messages light up the screen. “Contractions every 3 minutes. I wrote Heather also. But no word ...

"Around the world, home birth and midwives are the standards. When you consider it in a global way, having babies in the hospital in the United States is the stranger course of things." Schwaiger sees ...