Natalie Krueger of Osmond, Nebraska, says she felt pressured into an epidural she did not want when she delivered her first child at a hospital. Her next child was born at home without assistance from ...

Before Natalie Krueger even became pregnant with her second child, a boy named Callahan, she knew she wanted to give birth at home. She’d had a hospital birth with her first child, Sawyer, that didn’t ...

NEW YORK CITY: More than 2,700 pregnant women in Yemen face the risk of having to give birth without skilled medical care, the UN Population Fund warned on Monday. They are among more than 120,000 ...

Natalie Krueger lives in Osmond, Nebraska, a town with a hospital that has no labor and delivery unit at all. When she went into labor with her first child in 2020, she had to drive across state lines ...

"Free birth," when a person gives birth without the help of a medical professional, has been popularized in recent years by influencers. Experts say it’s dangerous, but people who choose to give birth ...

Nebraska homesteader Abbey Khopesh has ignited a fierce, highly polarized debate within the global medical community after publicly documenting her unassisted, intervention-free home birth. Khopesh, ...

Giving birth without a doctor or midwife present or foregoing prenatal care are increasingly popular practices. They're attracting people who mistrust the healthcare system or believe in all-natural ...

A pregnant woman holds her belly in this undated file photograph. (Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga/Kansas News Service) Freebirth and unassisted or “wild” pregnancy are trending on social media. A freebirth ...

For many families in the rural areas of Isangi, in Tshopo Province (Democratic Republic of the Congo), the birth of a child remains a time marked by fear. The lack of healthcare infrastructure, long ...

A sprawling journalistic investigation has exposed direct links between a highly lucrative United States-based "freebirthing" organization and the preventable death of a 30-year-old Australian ...