A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

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 ...

Nicci Bryant, a labor and delivery R.N.C.-O.B., B.S.N., wants moms everywhere to know that they are the real ones in charge. A nurse is there to be a guide, a helper, and an advocate, but remember ...

Having a baby is such a risky thing to do. Though most survive the endeavor, the truth is that so many things can go wrong in an instant. I remember when I thought it was time to deliver my son, I ...

Nichol Gerber discovered her faithful canine Penny silently observed her entire labor and delivery, hours after the event Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center is constructing a new University Hospital with state-of-the-art maternity ...

People don’t believe it when I mention how much I loved labor and delivery. They think I’m talking about my career as a nurse-midwife helping others, not my own experiences. They’re partially right—I ...

A Des Moines couple got more excitement than they planned for when their baby arrived at home with help from a dispatcher and firefighter.

As of Nov. 17, Mayo Clinic Health System will no longer provide on-call labor and delivery coverage at Owatonna Hospital, and ...

After three decades of nursing, the sentiment that inspired Ladawna Walker to get into the profession still rings true: everybody has a story, and everybody deserves care. Voted best nurse this year ...