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

Giving birth at home or in the car when you were planning on making it to the hospital or birth center? Totally not the plan ...

In theory, birth decisions are deeply personal. In practice, parents are often asked to explain, defend, or justify them.

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...

Bella Thieme tells PEOPLE she thinks the experience "helped my toddler bond with the baby" Kayla Grant is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2025. Her work has ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Debby Ryan gave birth to her and husband Josh Dun’s first baby, with the Disney Channel alum sharing photos of her little girl in a sweet Dec. 13 announcement.

A mother who died along with her baby after choosing to have a home birth might have been saved if she was taken to hospital earlier, a coroner has found. Jennifer Cahill, 34, died at North Manchester ...

“It’ll be an amazing moment to take him home and cross the threshold of our home with him for the first time,” the boy’s father said Barrett Brasfield, who weighed 1 lb. at birth, is expected to head ...

SNL vet Pete Davidson and model girlfriend Elsie Hewitt officially have become parents with the birth of their baby girl.