Over 2,000 years on, modern obstetric care—from calibrated drapes to lifesaving medicines—is reshaping motherhood, giving ...

Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?” If this question sounds familiar, it is because it was posed by Charlie Brown in a moment of frustration about the commercialization of the ...

A Bakersfield mother gave birth to a full-term baby she didn’t know she was carrying, in a rare abdominal pregnancy doctors ...

The state of charitable giving in America is strong and growing on Giving Tuesday this year. “States with larger economies dominate in total charitable giving, while per-capita leaders are shaped by ...

Kobi Ajayi founded and remains affiliated with EDEN Foundation, Nigeria, a local non-profit organization with a mission to improve preterm infant outcomes. Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a ...

An American mother revealed in a TikTok video that it cost her more than $30,000 in hospital bills to give birth, sparking concerned comments from around the world about the costs of American health ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

Mercedes Wells’ story has become all too common when discussing Black maternal care. After a video of her being discharged from Franciscan Health Crown Point Hospital while in active labor went viral, ...

Alena Wells could have entered the world surrounded by her family and medical professionals. Instead, she was born on Nov. 16 in the front seat of a Chevrolet Silverado as her father, Leon Wells, ...

Mercedes Wells' experience at Franciscan Health Crown Point highlights disparities in Black women's birth experiences. Franciscan Health Crown Point in Crown Point, Indiana, has dismissed a doctor and ...

CROWN POINT, Ind. (WLS) -- The doctor and nurse who attended to a Chicago mother who was discharged from a northwest Indiana hospital shortly before giving birth earlier this week are no longer with ...

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...