Amid a rise in home births, mistrust between midwives and hospitals can put mothers and babies at risk. With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room ...

New Delhi: Despite sharp gains in hospital-based childbirth, a small share of deliveries in Delhi continues to take place outside medical institutions and is attended by relatives or other untrained ...

Charity WaterAid says every two seconds a women gives birth in a hospital or healthcare centre without clean water as it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A growing number of women in the U.S. are opting to give birth at home rather than at a hospital. Data shows more than 50,000 ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

The hospital said it hoped to resume home birth services from "late spring" A hospital has taken the "difficult" decision to "pause" its home birth services after a review. Kettering General Hospital ...

A Florida woman is behind bars after deputies say she secretly gave birth at home, allowed the newborn to drown, and buried ...

For some parents, home feels like the safest place to welcome a baby. But experts warn childbirth can be unpredictable and the risks aren’t always widely understood. US military gives update after ...

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The baby born just hours after her mother was rescued from a sinking car in a Stuart retention pond is finally heading home.

South Korea’s very low birth rate and ageing population have long served as a cautionary tale for other governments worried that they’ll see similar demographic challenges. But now, for the second ...

A SCIENTIST known for discovering water on a distant planet has been mysteriously shot dead on his front porch. Carl Grillmair was found with a gunshot wound outside his desert home in Llano – about ...