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.

In the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played ...

Throughout the pandemic, Chrissy Owens and Ildiko Baugus have seen an increase in interest for the work they do. The women, both certified midwives, co-own EVa Home Birth. Their practice, with ...

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 ...

Giving birth at home is rapidly becoming a more popular birthing option for families in the United States. Women are choosing to birth at home for all kinds of reasons, including lower rates of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From Left: Midwives Helena Grant, Martine Jean-Baptiste and Alexis Dunn Amore. From Left: Midwives Helena Grant, Martine ...

A MOTHER was given her “blue and floppy” newborn and told “there’s your baby” by a midwife after a traumatic home birth, an ...

VINTON — Bethany Gates became interested in helping women during their pregnancy after her first home birth. Gates gave birth to her first daughter in a hospital, but chose to give birth to her second ...