Abby Reichardt remembers playing pretend family with her best friend by stuffing pillows under her shirt to look pregnant, and lining up other objects to imagine using as children to mother. She also ...

The United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, UN Population Fund Agency (UNFPA), released a statement on Sunday in celebration of the International Day of the Midwife. It reported the ...

Throughout time and across the globe, midwives have been the traditional care providers for pregnancy and childbirth. Midwives view childbirth as a normal life event and provide expert care and ...

There is a unique power contained in a room where a woman is giving birth. There is power in the women surrounding her. It's a time of transformation, an alchemy unlike any other. No wonder, in so ...

Reporting from Austin, Texas — It wasn’t just the disproportionate number of pregnancy-related deaths among black women in the United States that alarmed Darline Turner when the crisis first hit the ...

When Bethany Golden arrived at the Yale School of Nursing in 2000 for her master’s degree in nurse midwifery, she was eager to get started. “The first thing I asked was, ‘when are we going to learn ...

A state court case that challenged a Hawaii law restricting traditional midwives from assisting in pregnancies and births without state-issued licenses ended Wednesday after the state agreed to settle ...