A bill moving through the Iowa Legislature could make it easier to open birth centers in the state, a change that midwives ...

Iowa does not have any birth centers, which are dedicated facilities for childbirth where midwives provide care.

Dr. Katharine Morrison heads the Birthing Center where women can participate in health care services including pre and postnatal care and child birthing. The Birthing Center of Buffalo opened on ...

For decades, the hospital has delivered children on the island. The closure would mean expecting parents must drive further ...

A Topeka pregnancy care center has accepted a settlement offer from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) ...

A 6-pound, 11-ounce girl made history as the first baby born at the new Brown University Labor and Delivery Center at Women & ...

To help address the maternal and infant mortality crisis, they’re realizing a vision where midwives are the leaders in care in a reclamation of the normal physiologic process of birth. They say birth ...

In response to alarmingly high maternal mortality and morbidity rates in the Bronx, Borough President (BP) Vanessa Gibson ...

Around 300 babies a year would be born at the center, which would serve 1,000 families annually with clinical care and programming. “This birth center is a life-saving investment in our families ...

Beyond hospital-based maternity care, Intermountain Health announced on Feb. 18 that the Western Slope’s only freestanding birth center (Bloomin’ Babies) will close because of shrinking demand ...

Gibson said the birthing center would provide better access and resources for prenatal care for women. During the rally, Gibson and other speakers spoke of how the center would include midwives ...