It's usually more dangerous for women to give birth lying down, so why do they? It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men.

"It shouldn't be this hard to give birth safely in the state of Alabama, and it doesn't have to," said the ACLU's lead ...

“How we welcome our babies into the world matters.” That’s the message Midwife Eileen Stewart wants to communicate. She has dedicated her life to providing health care options that increase women’s ...

Gavin Fraser is a graduate research assistant at Boston University School of Social Work. I dreamed of having children from a young age — so much so that I assumed I had to be a cisgender woman.

It is an established and alarming fact that Black women are more likely to die during childbirth than white women. This is why Rianka Dorsainvil, a CFP and co-founder of 2050 Wealth Partners, decided ...

Birthing options across the country are shrinking as hospitals close and shortages of maternity care providers leave expecting mothers with difficult choices, according to a recent report from the ...