I've given birth twice. With my first, I couldn't ask for the epidural fast enough, but with my second I did it completely drug-free. I clearly haven't experienced every different birthing scenario ...

everyone else is wrong about. A few weeks after I had my first child, I ran into a woman from my prenatal yoga class who was still pregnant. She told me, sadly, that her baby was breech, and because ...

Completely natural means just that: a woman having a baby without the help of the many drugs and painkillers made possible by modern science. It's a reasonable choice to make, but the first step is to ...

Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...

The Reason I, Who Intended to Have an Epidural, Chose Natural Childbirth” Now that I have finished giving birth and written my birth report, I want to re-examine the “answer” to the choice I made back ...

We are usually suspicious of pain-mongers. Think of the flinching reaction bringing up a "cutter" ensures. Sure, we are in awe of the guy who cut off his own arm to free himself from being trapped ...

Birthing centers, which offer natural, low-intervention births to low-risk moms, are becoming more and more popular. But regardless of demand, they’re struggling to stay open. When Kimberly Kleoppel ...

Pressure on women from antenatal classes, social media and health care professionals to have a natural birth is causing lasting psychological harm when it does not go to plan, new research shows. The ...

Elisabeth Bing, the natural child-birth pioneer who popularised the Lamaze method in the United States, has died at age 100. Bing, born in a Berlin suburb on July 9, 1914, died on Friday at her home ...

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.