One in 62 births takes place outside of a hospital in the U.S. But are home births safe? We talked to doctors and midwives to unpack the issue.

Saying it can't recruit enough staff, Aspirus Health plans to close the birthing unit at its Aspirus Ironwood Hospital in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

In low-risk pregnancies, mothers and children are just as safe with a planned home birth as they are with a planned birth center birth, a national study led by Oregon State University researchers ...

Studies including women with booked home births (e.g., women had booked a home birth, but could have been transferred to hospital care during pregnancy), and those with unplanned home births or ...

Almost one in five planned home births in Brighton and Haywards Heath could not be facilitated over the past year as the ...

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

A pregnant New Jersey woman says she left Virtua Voorhees Hospital after she was told upon arrival to the triage unit her husband had to wait in the car during labor and delivery because of COVID ...