As women who have gone through childbirth know, labor contractions and the birth process are typically painful. But women have been giving birth for centuries without pain medication. There are ...

As low-intervention childbirth methods increase in the U.S., hospitals are offering pregnant moms a variety of options to help them be more comfortable during labor and delivery. A new ...

Here's what happens during each stage of labor – from how long each stage lasts to what you might feel. Labor happens in three stages — early labor and dilation, pushing and delivery, and finally, ...

As you're preparing for the arrival of your future sidekick, you're probably anticipating labor and delivery with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. It's a good time to become familiar with vaginal ...

A woman gave birth midair on a Delta flight bound for Oregon with the help of two emergency medical technicians, who volunteered aboard the packed plane.

"Mom was a rock star," said Tina Fritz, an EMT who happened to be on board the April 24 flight from Atlanta to Portland ...

In honor of Mother’s Day, we asked the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers for photos of moms ...

After Rachel Somerstein was rushed into an operating room for an unplanned caesarean section, her doctor made the first cut. “I felt that,” she told him. “You’ll feel pressure,” the doctor responded.

Natasha Coppola-Shalom always dreamed of having a home birth, the Hollywood actress said on social media, but when it came time to usher in her second child, she made the decision to visit a local ...