When Kimberly Kleoppel envisioned the birth of her fourth baby, she pictured warm lighting and a birthing tub. She wanted it to go a lot like the birth of her third baby. Kleoppel delivered a girl at ...

Making informed decisions about childbirth represents one of the most significant choices expectant parents face. While both vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections safely bring babies into the world ...

From start (when to conceive) to finish (how to deliver), pregnancy is full of personal choices. No matter how you deliver — unmedicated, with an epidural, via an induction, or by C-section — you ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - It’s been nearly three months since Intermountain Health announced the Bloomin’ Babies Birth center is closing, the only natural birthing center in western Colorado. The ...

everyone else is wrong about. A few weeks after I had my first child, I ran into a woman from my prenatal yoga class who was still pregnant. She told me, sadly, that her baby was breech, and because ...

* Hospital-supported natural birth maintains //safety for mother and baby Childbirth practices are shifting as more women actively participate in decisions about how they want to give birth ( ref1 ).

A lack of birthing options in North St. Louis County, negative experiences during previous labor and deliveries, as well as the desire to bring new life into the world the natural way is making some ...

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.” By Adam Nossiter Michel Odent, a French ...

A mom's candid 2-hour, post-birth reflections have captured the attention of TikTok users and racked up 1.2 million views. On March 2, Sammy Estrella, 34, welcomed her daughter Sky into the world in ...

Some think the rise of C-sections means that one day all births will require serious medical intervention. But a surprising new understanding of the pelvis suggests a different story ...