ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

Throughout the pandemic, Chrissy Owens and Ildiko Baugus have seen an increase in interest for the work they do. The women, both certified midwives, co-own EVa Home Birth. Their practice, with ...

Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

In the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

From Left: Midwives Helena Grant, Martine Jean-Baptiste and Alexis Dunn Amore. While they earned the respect of their communities and occasionally the public at large, midwives were simultaneously ...

Eileen Fruithandler delivered her second child at home with a midwife in 1992 – an era when she and her late husband faced pushback from loved ones about the decision. “I’m lying to everyone – I had ...

Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played ...

VINTON — Bethany Gates became interested in helping women during their pregnancy after her first home birth. Gates gave birth to her first daughter in a hospital, but chose to give birth to her second ...

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It’s the middle of the night, and Autumn Cavender drives down a country road through the pitch-black darkness. It’s a familiar routine for Cavender, who explains that most babies are born between 11 p ...