A small but growing community of TikTokers is glorifying the dangerous practice of "free birth." Free birth is giving birth with no medical attendants and sometimes forgoing prenatal care. OB-GYNs ...

Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

For Cait Scudder, the decision to share video footage of herself delivering her son in a water birth back in 2022 wasn't a complicated one. As founder of the Millionaire Mother community and a ...

In the early, terrifying days of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, many hospitals required pregnant women to labor while wearing a mask, or to give birth without partners or other loved ...

Giving birth is obviously no easy feat. There’s a reason why it is talked about in almost reverent tones. Anyone who has been through pregnancy and labor knows it is a different kind of pain. Because ...

A coroner has begun investigating the death of a wellness influencer who was rushed to hospital after giving birth to her son ...

Concerned that a jury might fault the parents for choosing a home birth, prosecutor Krista Boucher offered a plea deal. On May 5, 2011, 50 to 75 supporters stood as Carr entered the courtroom in what ...