Your baby spends nine months floating in the warm, cozy comfort of amniotic fluid, so a water birth in a tub or birthing pool might seem like a natural way of welcoming her into the world. But while ...

In newly-released findings, an Australian coroner determined that the 2022 death of "Baby E" was preventable Getty In December 2022, a newborn died after her mom gave birth in a birthing pool without ...

Women who use water immersion during labor and birth experience better maternal and neonatal outcomes compared to those who receive epidural anesthesia, according to a study led by midwife Soledad ...

Michel Odent, a French obstetrician whose natural childbirth innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, aimed to make new mothers feel calm and secure, died Aug. 19 in London.