Kāla Noel captured this image of the Wagar family welcoming their baby at a planned home birth. Photo shared by Melissa Cheyney, professor in the OSU College of Liberal Arts and a licensed midwife.

In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center birth, a national study led by Oregon State University researchers has ...

Cincinnati Children's researchers tracked out-of- hospital births and found that the numbers doubled in the region from April 1, 2020–December 31, 2023, compared to births from January 1, ...

Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted ...

Data: CDC; Note: Includes intended and unintended home births; Chart: Jacque Schrag/Axios Home births keep rising in Pennsylvania and the nation years after the pandemic surge. Why it matters: The ...

MONDAY, Dec. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For low-risk pregnancies, planned home births are as safe as planned birth center births, according to a study published in the December issue of Medical Care.

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 ...

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 ...

CNN — There were more than 50,000 home births in the United States in 2021, an increase of 12% over the year before and the highest level since at least 1990, according to a report released Thursday ...

Oge Young, MD, lives in Concord. Last week, the House HHS committee held a public hearing for HB 1010, a bill that would lift restrictions on certified lay midwives attending births outside of a ...