Among North America’s coastal elites, midwifery has become associated with finicky preferences, rigid orthodoxy, and a commitment to doing things right. Regular folks have hospital births. Folks who want to “win” at childbirth by forgoing the epidural, or who turn up their noses at chemicals that course through one’s…
Medical costs in the U.S. are astronomically high, even for a procedure as common as birth, but the bill can still come as quite a shock when you look closely at the itemized list.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting that three women on the U.S. mainland have given birth to infants with Zika-related birth defects. The CDC’s latest report, released today, also said that three other women chose to abort after discovering that their fetuses had brain damage from the virus.
Do you remember that guy who Facebook Live-d his wife giving birth, hastening the arrival of an era where literally everything is fair game for public consumption? It turns out he had no idea what he was doing!
Last month, Daljinder Kaur, a woman in her 70s, gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Kaur underwent two years of IVF treatments and, according to the Washington Post, she did so against the initial objections of doctors and her 79-year-old husband, Mohinder Singh Gill. After undergoing IVF at the National Fertility and…
According to statistics drawn from Oregon—where home birth is popular and birth and death certificates include information about the location of birth and who attended—the infant mortality rate for home births attended by a midwife was seven times that of hospital births, making home birth in America much more…
In late March, Indiana passed House Enrolled Act 1337, a comprehensive abortion bill that placed a series of familiar restrictions on the procedure; from requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals to restricting abortion based on race and gender and outlawing abortion based on disability.…
In Knoxville, Tennessee, a woman has safely given birth to twins—five weeks apart. This process, which rarely happens, is called an interval delivery.
“Uncle” Terry no more, alleged sexual predator and still-very-successful photographer Terry Richardson announced on Instagram Tuesday that his assistant-turned-girlfriend Alexandra “Skinny” Bolotow has given birth to healthy twin boys.
“Are you having an ultrasound?” the midwife asked, at my first appointment. I thought there had been a miscommunication: nobody had told me whether I would have one. “Well, it’s up to you,” she said. She could explain the pros and cons, but the decision was mine. Welcome to the midwifery model of care.
Two weeks ago, a heroic doctor delivered a baby while 30,000 feet in the air, on a flight from Taiwan to Los Angeles. This week, reports say that the Taiwanese woman whose labor diverted the plane to Alaska may be on the hook for $33,000. That’s because she may have planned to give birth in American airspace in order…
Dr. Angelica Zen was on her way home from her honeymoon in Bali when her vacation took a last-minute swerve: she ended up delivering a baby on the airplane, thousands of feet in the air.
We’ve been telling you this literally since 2008, but “dolphin-assisted” births are really not a good idea. Really. It almost seems like this shouldn’t need saying?
On Saturday night, Rose and Trevor Abbud were driving to the hospital via a New Jersey Shore highway to give birth after Rose’s water broke at around 6:30 p.m. It soon became clear that the baby would not wait to be born.
The National Zoo in Washington, DC announced that its giant panda, Mei Xiang, gave birth to twins. “All of us are thrilled that Mei Xiang has given birth,” Dennis Kelly, the zoo’s director said in a statement. “We know Mei is an excellent mother.” The zoo doesn’t know the cubs’ sex yet, but plans to perform an exam…
A video shows a Houston woman giving birth to a 10-pound baby boy while her husband unsuccessfully attempts to reach a birthing center in time.
Three lesbian couples have sued Arkansas’s state health officials, saying the department refuses to put both parents on their children’s birth certificates. They say the State Health Department will only put the biological mother on a birth certificate, and requires a court order to include the other parent.
In a statement released today, the World Health Organization warned that medically unnecessary Caesarean sections can endanger women and infants, saying they’re associated with both “short and long term risk which can extend many years beyond the current delivery and affect the health of the woman, her child, and…
Avery Denton was a bit of a surprise for his mother, not only because he weighed 14 very painful pounds, but also because his mother, Maxxzandra Ford didn't realize she was pregnant until her third trimester.
An unlicensed game app featuring characters from Disney's Frozen allows you to perform a Cesarean section on Anna. Because that's exactly what you wanted to do after you saw Frozen, right?
