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From Ashley Graham and Kehlani to Hilary Duff and Gigi Hadid, here are celebrity moms who've had home births and what they've ...
Until the 1700s, home birth was the only option for those giving birth. Friends and family members would help with the birth, along with a midwife. In the late 1700s, doctors began to help with ...
Following a 22% increase from 2019 to 2020, the number of home births jumped 12% between 2020 and 2021. While the rate of home births remains small—making up just 1.4% of all U.S. births in 2021 ...
When it comes to making your birthing plan, there are a lot to factors to consider, including whether or not you're planning ...
The number of women who birthed at home from 2020-21 rose 12%, “the highest level since at least 1990” at more than 51,600 births, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lineweaver then looked for a midwife to attend her birth at home, and after receiving several rejections, ended up finding not one but three midwives who were willing. She chose one nearly 200 ...
A hospital has said a woman's choice to have a home birth "is not affected" by the closure of its dedicated home birthing ...
The vast majority of children in the United States are born in a hospital, but the number of planned home births has gone up significantly in the past few years. At the root of this growing trend ...
Growing dissatisfaction with hospital birthing processes and its mistreatment of women are causing a small but growing number to choose home births instead. Exhausted after giving birth to her ...
While the total number of U.S. births declined at the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021, the number of births at home rose during the pandemic’s first year. Both the number and proportion of U.S. home ...