Of all the decisions you'll make while pregnant, deciding where to give birth might be the most impactful. Hospitals, birthing centers, and home births all come with benefits and drawbacks; it just ...

With the closing of Bryn Mawr’s Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center, women have lost an important maternity option.

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center, the only free-standing birthing center in the state since 1997, recently changed hands as national trends show that these types of facilities are growing ...

Quincy Medical Group's new stand-alone birthing center will open to patients beginning on Monday, offering a new option for ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The I-Team is looking into how birthing centers and midwives are regulated after a Cary birthing center stopped delivering babies following the deaths of three newborns in the ...

Members and supporters of the Birth Justice Collaborative at the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee. (Photo courtesy Birth Justice Collaborative) This is your first of three free ...

The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A North Carolina lawmaker is hoping a bill that would require licensing for out-of-hospital birth centers will pass quickly and become law. One of Sen. Mike Woodard's ...

Asante will be shuttering birthing services at its Ashland hospital this spring. Staff say the closure is a loss to the ...

New and growing families will pass an abstract painting of blues, greens, grays and tans when entering the new birthing center at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway. The color scheme echoes ...