When Bryn Mawr's LifeCycle Wellness, one of the oldest birth centers in the country, announced it was shutting down this March after 47 years of offering midwife services, a group of state lawmakers ...

We've all heard it before: The oldest child is responsible and driven, the middle one is the peacekeeper, and the youngest is the fun-loving rebel. It sounds neat, maybe even a little true when you ...

I have been reading exposés about the free birth movement for nearly as long as I have been covering women’s health. The movement’s adherents are women who give birth without trained medical ...

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 ...

Postpartum hemorrhage is one of the most serious risks after giving birth. WakeMed Health OBGYN Dr. Jenna Beckham explained that the condition occurs when bleeding after birth exceeds what’s ...

Sci-fi and cyberpunk media did not prepare y'all for this one. Twitch streamer Fandy is currently going viral online for giving birth during an eight-hour livestream for nearly 30,000 viewers. As any ...

Discover the simplest super smelter in Minecraft! Learn how to build it easily to level up your resource smelting in a flash! Farmers are aging. Their kids don’t want to be in the family business.

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

Leslie Root receives funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) for work on fertility rates. Karen Benjamin Guzzo has received funding from the ...

The United States' total fertility rate fell to a record low in 2024, dipping below 1.6 children per woman, according to new federal data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with fewer than 1.6 children being born per woman, federal data released Thursday shows. The U.S. was once among only a few developed ...