CHASKA, Minn. — As if giving birth wasn't stressful enough. "It's the mom and the baby that run the show," Emily Birdsall, a mom of four, asserted to WCCO Investigates. "You want to have a birth when ...

Water birth – in which a woman spends some or all of labour and delivery in a warm water pool – has become more popular as a gentler form of birthing. While its proponents claim it helps provide ...

If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife-led birth centers, the nation’s C-section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current twin trend of rising health ...