Promoters of free birthing reject any type of medical intervention during pregnancy or delivery. The movement has been ...

A mom who believes “the body takes care of itself” is set to have her second birth without any medical intervention and is continuing to drink raw milk and eat raw beef liver during her pregnancy.

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

Women are now better off giving birth at home or in midwife-led centres than in hospital where doctors are more likely to make interventions such as caesareans , the health advisory body has said. The ...

Madison Patrick is a sociology and public health major and a 2024-25 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Despite the invaluable contribution of medical ...

"In an ideal world, an unassisted childbirth wouldn’t have been our first choice, but it turned out to be the best decision we ever made," writes author Malcolm Kempt Malcolm Kempt worked as a ...