Supermodel Gisele Bundchen is pregnant with her third child and reportedly plans to give birth at home. Labor doulas discuss the benefits, risks and other considerations about the home birth process.

On managing labor pain at home My midwife told me I needed to sleep in between contractions to conserve energy. So there were a few hours where I was just laying in bed with pillows stuffed ...

You might choose a planned home birth for different reasons, which may include: A desire to give birth without medical treatments, such as pain medication, labor augmentation, labor induction, or ...

Natasha Downing, who was 39 weeks pregnant, had only just left her home in Calabasa with her suitcase in tow when she was overcome with crippling pain and had to crouch down near the doorway.

One of the touchstones for “Extreme Pain, Extreme Joy,” Shannon said, is W. Eugene Smith’s famous photo essay “Country Doctor,” published in Life magazine in 1948, about a heroically ...

In 2023, the most recent year of data available, more than 1,800 babies were born in Wisconsin in intended home births with midwives. More than 8,800 births were attended by midwives, whether at ...

You are at home, there is no pain medication,” Lawrence, 34, told Us Weekly exclusively about her home birth while promoting her partnership with Elvie’s Stride 2 breast pump.

Dessert was able to afford her $7,000 home birth only with financial help from a nonprofit. “My birth was fun, slightly chaotic, euphoric, and tough,” Dessert says, and she wouldn’t have ...