Giving birth at home isn't for everyone — or even many expectant parents. But research shows that the practice is growing in popularity. Home births in the U.S. also rose 12% from 2020 to 2021, and ...

Share on Pinterest Experts say there are number of reasons people decide to give birth at home. Myrrha/Getty Images The number of home births continues to increase in the United States. Experts 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 ...

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

Eileen Fruithandler delivered her second child at home with a midwife in 1992 – an era when she and her late husband faced pushback from loved ones about the decision. “I’m lying to everyone – I had ...

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 ...

Gisele Bündchen is expecting a baby with boyfriend Joaquim Valente, a source confirmed to Fox News Digital. The supermodel, 44, is pregnant for the third time. She already has two kids with her ...

In March 2022, Emily was pregnant with her first baby and excited to become a mother. But she was a lot less excited about the idea of giving birth in a hospital, especially in the age of COVID-19.

According to a report from the CDC’s national center for health statistics, there were more than 50,000 home births in the United States in 2021 which is an increase of 12% over the year before the ...

For some families, giving birth at home feels natural, intimate, and culturally aligned. Others are drawn to it because of high hospital costs, fear of unnecessary interventions, or a desire for ...