My son, now 47, was born in a period of resistance to standard birth practices, which imposed rigidities that did not promote ...

Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Mercy Hospital Springfield delivered a record number of babies under its roof in 2025, breaking a ...

The WVU Medicine Golisano Children’s Birthing Center at Uniontown Hospital welcomed its first baby of 2026 on Jan. 2. Jennie ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Nearly 500 babies were born at Newport Hospital in the 2024 fiscal year, but City Councilor Xay Khamsyvoravong is worried about where families on Aquidneck Island would go if ...

One million births in Norway over 17 years have a story to tell: Maternity wards with greater numbers of births have safer ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correct the name spelling and title of Laura Appel, executive vice president of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association. Aspirus Health will eliminate ...

An Alabama appeals court ruled Friday that the state can license and regulate freestanding birth centers as hospitals. In a ...

Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., is seeking approval from the medical center’s board of directors to build a birth center on its campus after two Twin Cities hospitals recently closed maternity ...

Hospital labor and delivery units are shuttering across the nation — including more than two dozen in 2025 alone.

In fact, Jaxson was born just three minutes after his mom arrived at the hospital. Largo says it was a great, unplanned gift. “It was the greatest gift. Just a simple birth,” she said. The hospital ...