Ahead of her talk at this year’s NI Science Festival, Dr Robyn Acheson explores how childbirth, once firmly in women’s hands, ...

Dozens of people gathered on Tuesday to protest a possible change coming to Rancho Springs Hospital in Murrieta, where officials are considering ending their midwifery program.

Hundreds of midwives protested in Athens Thursday over new restrictions on how they work in hospitals that mean they will not ...

Shortage raises rates of maternity intervention, while improving access to care could potentially save 4.3m lives a year, say experts ...

Instead of a conventional hospital birth, Heidi Teeple and her husband Rod brought baby Logan into the world while soaking together in a freestanding tub of warm water in their living room, with a ...

The American College of Nurse-Midwives sued Mississippi in federal court this week to challenge a state requirement that ...

Bills to allow more certified nurse midwives to practice in Mississippi died in committee Tuesday, two weeks after the state ...

Mississippi nurse-midwives sue the state, claiming restrictive laws hinder their practice and worsen maternal health care.

In August last year, community midwives became funded to deliver antenatal immunisations to pregnant women. Midwives will now be able to administer vaccines to mothers after birth, babies, and ...

The baby's mother tells an inquest the midwives were "scrambled together" due to staffing shortages.

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Despite the region’s rich history of reproductive care, birth options remain incredibly limited. A group of midwives in Kentucky want to change that. When Laura Browning was pregnant for the first ...