Kāla Noel captured this image of the Wagar family welcoming their baby at a planned home birth. Photo shared by Melissa Cheyney, professor in the OSU College of Liberal Arts and a licensed midwife.

Minnesota's new law requires Medicaid to pay for home births, including paying nurses and midwives the same rate as doctors.

Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted ...

Cincinnati Children's researchers tracked out-of-hospital births and found that the numbers doubled in the region from April 1, 2020–December 31, 2023, compared to births from January 1, 2018–February ...

Oge Young, MD, lives in Concord. Last week, the House HHS committee held a public hearing for HB 1010, a bill that would lift restrictions on certified lay midwives attending births outside of a ...

Growing dissatisfaction with hospital birthing processes and its mistreatment of women are causing a small but growing number to choose home births instead. Exhausted after giving birth to her ...

CNN — There were more than 50,000 home births in the United States in 2021, an increase of 12% over the year before and the highest level since at least 1990, according to a report released Thursday ...

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...