Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

I have been reading exposés about the free birth movement for nearly as long as I have been covering women’s health. The movement’s adherents are women who give birth without trained medical ...

Madera lacks a maternity ward and Planned Parenthood, forcing travel to Fresno. Home births rose after 2023 reopening; midwives handle low-risk cases. Cost and lack of insurers drive unassisted births ...

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...

An Indiana hospital has launched an investigation into a video that went viral on social media after a woman said she was sent home while in active labor, and delivered her baby on the side of the ...

When technology executive Logan Maley returned to the office after her first child in 2018, she had an ideal setup: She worked four days a week in a private office with a mini fridge and blackout ...

A Kansas mother has melted the hearts of viewers on social media after showing her toddler’s wide-eyed reaction to the accidental home birth of her baby sister. Posted on August 25 under @bella.thieme ...

“Low-tox” Australian food influencer Stacey Hatfield has died due to “an unforeseen and extremely rare complication” after she home birthed her first child, her grieving husband said. She was 30. The ...

Australian food influencer Stacey Hatfield died on September 29, shortly after giving birth to her first son, Axel, at home. Her death was caused by an "unforeseen and extremely rare complication" ...

Stacey Hatfield, an Australian nutritionist and food influencer who championed a toxin-free lifestyle, died after giving birth at home, her husband said in a post on Instagram. She was 30. In an ...