As low-intervention childbirth methods increase in the U.S., hospitals are offering pregnant moms a variety of options to help them be more comfortable during labor and delivery. A new ...

While most water births are successful, they can also be risky, according to American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists-a fact that one Oregon mom can ...

Maybe you have a girlfriend who swears her water birth helped her feel so much better during labor. Or maybe you've just seen the practice crop up more and more on your news feed. Regardless of how it ...

A water birth is not for all women undergoing labor. Some of the criteria used to select women who are suitable for this mode of natural childbirth include: There are other conditions as well which ...

Screen Shot 2016-05-20 at 12.28.41 PM.png A woman undergoes labor in a water-birth suite at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland in February 2014. That's the same month the hospital ...

A water birth video recently went viral without much mention of safety. Proponents of this fringe delivery method are solving a problem that we don't have. Human birth is an unpredictable and often ...

Earlier this month, Lumina Gershfield-Cordova gave birth to her healthy 8-pound daughter in a large tub of warm water. And from that portable tub — set up in the bedroom of her Somerville, Mass., ...

A new U.S. study of waterbirths found that hospital-based births involving water immersion had no higher risk of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or special care nursery admission than comparable ...