ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Norton Women’s and Children’s Hospital has added two newly renovated labor and delivery rooms that will give patients more options during childbirth. The rooms will be ideal ...

She doesn't know it, but five-week-old Luna Roche is at the centre of a protest over home births. Luna was born at home in Musquodoboit Harbour, although new regulations require mothers in the Halifax ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

Pregnancy is just part of it. As a certified nurse-midwife, I can provide care to women from menstruation until the ...

Madera County resident Glory Warner was born at home in the 1990s. Now, she's nearing her due date and wants to do the same with her baby. Warner says that she romanticized the idea of a home birth ...

HONOLULU (Island News) – Jaymie Lewis was employed as a midwife who assisted in home births and has even had three home births herself. She had to stop her career because the state had updated its ...

A new episode of “Accused: Did I Do It?” will look at a 2019 case in which a midwife assisted in a home birth that ended with the death of the baby two days later. The episode, “Negligent Midwife or ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

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 ...