A growing number of families are choosing home births, often seeking a more personal and comfortable environment during labor. But when complications arise, and a hospital transfer becomes necessary, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hayley Erbert is opening up about one of the most transformative moments of her life. One month after welcoming her first child ...

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and 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 ...

While the rate of home births remains small—making up just 1.4% of all U.S. births in 2021— it’s risen by about 2% each year from 1990 to 2019. The NCHS researchers do not speculate about why home ...

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