With many rural health care providers pulling, scaling back or changing their labor and delivery services, expectant mothers and their families are left with questions about what their options are as ...

Julia Blumenthal awakens with a jolt. It’s around 4 a.m. and her cellphone is buzzing. A slew of text messages light up the screen. “Contractions every 3 minutes. I wrote Heather also. But no word ...

Pregnancy and birth are deeply personal experiences, yet they are also medical events that can turn unpredictable. In India, hospitals remain the norm, but conversations about home birth are rising, ...