Women report experiencing pressure to birth naturally. This is often overlooked, but can be just as harmful as pressure to ...

From start (when to conceive) to finish (how to deliver), pregnancy is full of personal choices. No matter how you deliver — unmedicated, with an epidural, via an induction, or by C-section — you ...

Making informed decisions about childbirth represents one of the most significant choices expectant parents face. While both vaginal deliveries and cesarean sections safely bring babies into the world ...

Michel Odent, a French obstetrician whose natural childbirth innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, aimed to make new mothers feel calm and secure, died Aug. 19 in London.

DECATUR - Seeing pets give birth without as much as a wince always mystified Clatie Fischer. The Bloomington mother was skeptical that it was possible for humans to give birth without feeling pain, ...