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.

Standing in front of an empty lot one afternoon in the Georgia heat, Katie Chubb gestures to the place where she's been trying to open a birth center for six years. "We'd have parking along the road," ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Midwives and their advocates are celebrating an Alabama court ruling that permanently blocks the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) from regulating freestanding birth centers like hospitals.

HILLSBORO, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) — A woman gave birth to her son on a sidewalk just feet away from a birthing center. Mercedes Bolden and her husband were driving to the Alabama Birth Center in ...