Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery the ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — When Northfield Hospital renovated its Birth Center in 2020, it increased its capacity to handle as many as 750 births a year. It could reach that number soon. Lisa Bauer, vice ...

More than half of rural hospitals and more than one-third of urban hospitals did not offer labor and delivery services in ...

Los Alamos Medical Center will shift labor and delivery services to hospitals in Santa Fe and Española due to declining birth rates and staffing shortages.

HOLLAND, Mich. — There is a new option for birthing patients along the lakeshore, to help ease pain during labor. Holland Hospital's Boven Birth Center now has a labor hydrotherapy tub. It is a ...

Correction: This story has been updated to correct the name spelling and title of Laura Appel, executive vice president of the Michigan Health and Hospital Association. Aspirus Health will eliminate ...

Cherise Doyley was forced to appear in Zoom court from her hospital bed, while in active labor, because she refused to have a C-section. A judge ruled the hospital could perform the surgery in an ...