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Madera lacks a maternity ward and Planned Parenthood, forcing travel to Fresno. Home births rose after 2023 reopening; midwives handle low-risk cases. Cost and lack of insurers drive unassisted births ...

Home births are on the rise among women who feel dismissed by or skeptical of the medical establishment.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “The footage was not professional,” Scudder tells Yahoo Life. “It was captured on an iPhone by the backup midwife as my son was ...

The baby's mother tells an inquest the midwives were "scrambled together" due to staffing shortages.

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 ...

Minnesota lawmakers approved legislation requiring Medicaid to pay for home births, including paying nurses and midwives the same rate as doctors. The bill, sponsored by a state senator who gave a ...

A spokesperson for the Wye Valley Trust said: "Wye Valley NHS Trust has taken the difficult decision to temporarily suspend its home births service. "While there have been no safety concerns reported, ...

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and a ...