Dr. Janell Green Smith advocated for Black people giving birth and just days into the new year, she died while giving birth to her first child.

America's obstetricians are weighing in on the increasingly popular practice of women giving birth underwater. In a new report out Thursday, doctors say immersing a woman in a tub of warm water to ...

It was during the joyful anticipation of my second child's birth that I found myself facing a stark reality. As a board-certified family medicine physician and medical director, I arrived at the ...

Barbara Higgins delivered her son Jack at 36 weeks. Barbara Higgins did a CrossFit workout on the day she was told she would need to be induced into labor, and then delivered her son Jack in about ...

A New Hampshire woman and her newborn baby are alive thanks to doctors' efforts that included putting her in a coma. Rocio Casalduc, 20, went to the hospital to get checked for a cough. That's when ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Black mothers in the U.S. are particularly at risk, National Geographic reports. "Why giving birth in the U.S. is surprisingly deadly" is part of National Geographic’s special-edition, single-topic ...