His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.” By Adam Nossiter Michel Odent, a French ...

Comparing my two completely different unmedicated births! From a peaceful water birth with my first baby to an unexpectedly fast hospital birth with my second - sharing every detail of both ...

Standing in front of an empty lot one afternoon in the Georgia heat, Katie Chubb gestures to the place where she's been trying to open a birth center for six years. "We'd have parking along the road," ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon — In the largest national study of its kind, Oregon State University researchers found that low-risk, planned home births are as safe as planned births at accredited birth centers.

Medical intervention in human birth has become so widespread that spontaneous delivery is an increasingly rare event. Yet convincing evidence reveals an underlying 24-hour biorhythm, reflecting a ...