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

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and a ...

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 ...

If you're looking on social media for information and experiences of giving birth at home, you'll find widely varied content. On the one hand, you'll find women who develop a relationship with their ...

Despite the noise from midwives and hospitals, the latest data on the number of home births in the U.S. show that very few women are giving birth outside of hospitals. But new CDC data do show that ...

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 ...

The vast majority of children in the United States are born in a hospital, but the number of planned home births has gone up significantly in the past few years. At the root of this growing trend is ...