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 ...

Many women say home sweet home is best when it comes to giving birth. Compared to being hooked up to wires in a hospital room ...

The vast majority of children in the United States are born in a hospital, but the number of planned home births has gone up significantly in the past few years. At the root of this growing trend is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier this ...

DENVER — More pregnant people are turning away from hospital births and instead choosing their homes, according to research presented during the American Academy of Pediatrics 2025 National Conference ...

Gemma Lomas said midwives encouraged her to have a vaginal birth at home despite medical guidelines advising hospital delivery after having previously had a C-section Her newborn daughter, Poppy, died ...

Despite the noise from midwives and hospitals, the latest data on the number of home births in the U.S. show that very few women are giving birth outside of hospitals. But new CDC data do show that ...