Either you’re all for a natural birth or you think that women who go that route are crazy. Really, why would any woman want to go through that much pain when they don’t have to? Well, I was one such ...

We are usually suspicious of pain-mongers. Think of the flinching reaction bringing up a "cutter" ensures. Sure, we are in awe of the guy who cut off his own arm to free himself from being trapped ...

A doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a mother before, during, and shortly after childbirth. Unlike midwives or obstetricians, ...

Childbirth practices are shifting as more women actively participate in decisions about how they want to give birth (1 Trusted Source Midwife-led continuity models versus other models of care for ...

Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...

More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a “more comfortable and happy event” is being slighted in the current craze for “natural childbirth,” says a team of four Baltimore ...

The demand for natural childbirth does not seem to be going away. In the United States, there are more than 350 free-standing (meaning that they are not inside hospitals) birthing centers, an 82 ...