This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 7. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. I loved the beginning of the episode where we see the ...

I remember countless nights scrolling through Google and social media, searching for a clear hospital bag checklist for birth. Each due date brought excitement, nerves, and the stress of packing the ...

We start this newsletter again with maternity safety. Last week, The Sunday Times published another powerful maternity exposé (subscription required), this time examining care failures at Leeds ...

In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center birth, a national study led by Oregon State University researchers has ...

A person may choose to give birth naturally, without pain management medication, or with an epidural to block sensations of pain in the lower body. Each birthing option has its potential risks and ...

Standing in front of an empty lot one afternoon in the Georgia heat, Katie Chubb gestures to the place where she's been trying to open a birth center for six years. "We'd have parking along the road," ...

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

Alysha Bradley found out at her 36-week prenatal appointment last November that she couldn’t give birth at the Monadnock Birth Center as planned. The Swanzey center, which had been a staple in the ...