Alex Stewart is a mom to an 8-month-old son, Teddy, and a 3-year-old daughter, Elsie ...

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, ...

Even before Diana Castro Cook became pregnant, she knew she wanted to give birth with the help of a midwife when the time came. She had experienced midwifery with her former roommate, who had given ...

Two sisters have told of their surprise about giving birth to babies on the same day, in the same hospital and with the same midwife. Phoebe Rose, 28, and her big sister, Sophie Thomson, 31, took over ...

Most women give birth in public hospitals, seeing whichever midwife or doctor is rostered on. But research shows seeing the ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 1. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. It’s Spring of 1969, and brand new midwifery students are ...

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

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Janell Green Smith had attended hundreds of births as a midwife. Now, it was her turn. As she and her husband prepared to welcome their first child, Green Smith set up a pink and ...

After two years working in a labor and delivery unit as a surgical tech, Carlie Smith knew she didn’t want to give birth in a hospital. Nearly every night shift she worked was the same: women were ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Working in child and maternal health for twenty years, and as a Certified Nurse Midwife for the past five, Libby Mollard has much experience — but she doesn’t have full practice ...