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

Alisha Alderson placed her folded clothes and everything she needed for the last month of her pregnancy in various suitcases. She never imagined she would have to leave the comfort of her home in ...

New AI-enabled population health capabilities build on Maven's track record of helping families have safer pregnancies and lowering costs for employers For more than a decade, Maven has supported ...

At the beginning of 2025, Arkansas had fewer than 50 trained doulas, or trained birth coaches, across the state, according to ...

Jessie Mazar squeezed the grab handle in her husband’s pickup and groaned as contractions struck her during the 90-minute drive from her home in rural northeastern California to the closest hospital ...

An NHS hospital at the centre of an investigation into poor maternity care spent a decade chasing a 'normal birth' ideology that allegedly led to a spike in newborn deaths. In the period that Leeds ...

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin is ending his 40s quite differently to how he began them. “When I turned 40 I’d no kids. And now I’m nearly 50 I have three,” he says. The Labour MEP’s youngest daughter Róisín was ...