This video provides an in-depth and honest look at the experience of an expat couple giving birth at a private hospital in ...
Free birthing' describes the intentional choice to give birth without a registered healthcare professional present ...
Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...
An Alabama appeals court ruled Friday that the state can license and regulate freestanding birth centers as hospitals. In a ...
My daughter arrived on August 5, 2025, after a whirlwind and terrifying birth experience: 35 hours of labor, preeclampsia, ...
Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...
A man faces charges after threatening to blow up Franciscan Health if they didn’t say which nurse sent a Black woman in labor home.
For some families, giving birth at home feels natural, intimate, and culturally aligned. Others are drawn to it because of high hospital costs, fear of unnecessary interventions, or a desire for ...
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