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 ...

There are many options for giving birth — using an epidural, going unmedicated, hiring a doula or midwife, or delivering in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Throughout time and across the globe, midwives have been the traditional care providers for pregnancy and childbirth. Midwives view childbirth as a normal life event and provide expert care and ...

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 ...

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

LONDON, May 5 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Midwives are routinely “overlooked and ignored” despite saving millions of lives a year, the United Nations said on Wednesday, urging the world to hire ...

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

A resurgence of traditional midwifery is bringing deliveries back home The post Many Indigenous Mothers Must Travel Hundreds ...