S ome midwives tried to get out of being on call as they were "nervous" about a rise in women wanting to have babies away ...

ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

My wife, Pippa, gave birth like a giraffe, standing up. I was astonished. This wasn’t quite the nativity scene I’d imagined. Then again, I should not have been too shocked. Pippa grew up in South ...

You don’t even need to be pregnant to see a midwife, a common misconception. We also do fertility counseling, perform pap smears, conduct annual exams, provide contraception services and even ...

Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

Confident and unafraid — not many mothers would describe their feelings during childbirth with these words, but they are the words Charissa Peterson uses to describe giving birth to her youngest ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Home birth supporters returned to the Capitol on Wednesday in yet another bid to legalize lay midwives -- this time without the late-night maneuvers that briefly cost a top ...