Study finds 20 percent rise in home births between 2004 and 2008. May 20, 2011— -- Long before she was even pregnant, Deedee Williams knew she wanted give birth at home. So when she and her ...

With home births growing more popular in the U.S., the death of a home birth advocate who went into cardiac arrest during childbirth brings renewed attention to the debate over the safety of ...

Things to Consider When Choosing a Home Birth You should only consider having a home birth if you are healthy, have a normal pregnancy , and ideally, have given birth before.

The biggest concern about giving birth at home is what happens if something goes wrong, according to Talitha Phillips, a labor and postpartum doula and CEO of health nonprofit Claris Health.

Abby Phillip reflects on her midwife-attended home birth, amidst the maternal mortality crisis that disproportionately affects Black women and demands multifaceted solutions.

In Britain, women are actually advised to have children at home or in a birth center, rather than a hospital, when the pregnancy is low-risk. NYTimes.com no longer supports Internet Explorer 9 or ...

To the Editor: Don Troop’s “You Are What You Teach” (Short Subjects, The Chronicle, January 25) implies that giving birth in a hospital is an advancement over giving birth at home. However ...

The average out-of-pocket costs of childbirth among women with employer health insurance increased 49%, from $3,069 to $4,569 from 2008 to 2015.

After her first home birth in the United States, Jiezhen Wu delivered her second child at her parents’ home in Singapore – ...