There were 196 babies born at Leighton Hospital in Mid Cheshire in December 2025 (Image: Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) Every month we appeal for your pictures of your new babies. These ...

A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama’s first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...

In today’s newsletter: A new Guardian podcast, The Birth Keepers, explores how a global network promoting unassisted childbirth has shaped women’s decisions around childbirth. One mother’s story ...

Stacey Warnecke, 30, died after giving birth to a son at her Melbourne home accompanied by an unregulated doula Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free ...

More parents are refusing a shot typically given at birth to reduce the risk of infant bleeding, a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. An injection of ...

Systemic change that offers a credible vision of the future is the only path to reversing the birth rate decline, experts ...

HealthDay News — The proportion of newborns not receiving intramuscular vitamin K increased from 2017 to 2024, according to a research letter published online Dec. 8 in the Journal of the American ...

‘LOW tox’ wellness influencer Stacey Hatfield bled to death hours after welcoming a baby body via ‘freebirth’ at home. The 30-year-old’s cause of death was given as a postpartum haemorrhage, a serious ...

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 – and definitely not common, despite what TV dramas would have you believe.

Physicians throughout history thought postpartum depression could be resolved by rebalancing a woman’s bile or through punitive “rest cures.” Physicians have recorded symptoms of postpartum depression ...