As home births become more popular, midwives and medical experts stress the importance of clear emergency plans.

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Nichol Gerber’s recent home birth experience became even more meaningful when she noticed her dog, Penny, had been silently present throughout the entire process. The moment was captured in a ...

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely. The baby’s heart rate was slowing, her midwife said. They needed to go to the hospital ...

Although midwives have long been associated with home births, roughly 90 percent of midwife-attended births in the U.S. now occur in hospitals. At NYU Langone Health, midwives are fully integrated ...

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