Abbey Khopesh, 29, is 24 weeks pregnant with her second child and is planning another sovereign birth - an unassisted ...

The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, last week has prompted fresh concerns about giving birth without a midwife or medical assistance. This follows ...

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

Some states bar professional midwives from attending home births if they don’t have a nursing license. Their advocates say ...

Kay Kay Lineweaver’s first birthing experience in 2021 didn’t go as planned. Her baby was breech and the doctor wouldn’t allow her to try to give birth vaginally, so she ended up with an unwanted ...

"In an ideal world, an unassisted childbirth wouldn’t have been our first choice, but it turned out to be the best decision we ever made," writes author Malcolm Kempt Malcolm Kempt worked as a ...

Women are now better off giving birth at home or in midwife-led centres than in hospital where doctors are more likely to make interventions such as caesareans , the health advisory body has said. The ...