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Photo by Nezua. The women in Alabama who choose home birth say it’s time the state recognizes that choice. In many states, that option is sanctioned by the recognition of the certified professional midwife. According to Pushformidwives.org, ...

Deborah Frank is a board certified nurse-midwife (CNM) with over 32 years of experience caring for women and their families. With degrees from Duke University and Yale, she was the first CNM to be granted privileges at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles...

As I sit down to write this birth story so many things are going through my head. First of all, it’s going to take some time to get it all on paper (or digital paper, that is). There will be many nap times used to type this all out. I have a sleeping...

Over a year ago, we featured a mother's poignant and horrifying story about her home water birth that ended up with the baby being rushed to the NICU and the mother following shortly behind. The mother, Ashley Martin, recently had her sixth baby via...

By Lauren Apfel and Jessica Smock The first time Maria Fletcher gave birth it wasn’t traumatic, but it wasn’t what she had hoped for, either. After an uneventful pregnancy, Fletcher arrived at the hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, where she lives, in what...