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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...