I became a midwife after working as a doula for 10 years. I came into the work with the knowledge and concern for the lack of safety that is espoused to Black women and birthing people that I ...

As a midwife, Rebekah Knapp has been attending home births for nearly 15 years. She's delivered 230 babies. She has worked with other midwives and has taken training at the Midwifery Institute of ...

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the United States is expected to face a significant shortage of ...

ROCHESTER — Mothers and midwives have one absolute thing in common: knowing the true intimacy of birth. For Allison Welle and Amy Ntoburi, as both mothers and midwives, witnessing the miracle of birth ...

The word 'midwife' dates back to Middle English, but the role of midwifery extends to modern day. The term midwife originally referred to a woman who was "with" another woman giving birth, but ...

Allegra Hill knew she wanted to be a midwife long before she knew exactly what the term meant. Her mother had delivered her with the help of a midwife, and “every birthday I would hear my birth story ...

With the closing of Bryn Mawr’s Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center, women have lost an important maternity option.

This article was produced by Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. For the past year or so, Toni Hill, a midwife in the lowlands of northern Mississippi, has received an influx of ...

PHOENIX – When Katrina Huynh gave birth for the first time four years ago, she chose a modern tradition – a local hospital. But she chose a Phoenix birthing center when her daughter was born in ...

An NHS maternity patient survey also finds some were left alone at worrying times, while other expectant mothers were not ...

One midwife laughed at me when I begged for pain relief, saying I didn’t have a clue what real pain was and that the worst ...

Midwives and doctors struggle to help women give birth safely during the grim days of the pandemic. Doctors released Alejandra Guevarra Villegas, 19, from the operating room after delivering her baby ...