Florida was the first state to give the green light to so-called “advanced birthing centers.” Nearly one year later, though, the DeSantis administration hasn’t passed the regulations needed to license ...

Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood has unveiled its new $68 million birthing center with private rooms, modern technology, partner lounges and a staff of specialists for every birth ...

“It’s a starting place,” said Sandra Poole, health policy advocate for the Western Center on Law & Poverty, a co-sponsor of the legislation. For now, birth centers struggle with a gantlet of rules, ...

A group of midwives and doctors filed a lawsuit in state court challenging ongoing actions by the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), which have imposed a de facto ban on freestanding birth ...

Birdsall is among a growing population of women who are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives. Birdsall's youngest ...

After going through eight, she found an alternative: Kindred Space LA, a Black-owned birthing center staffed with midwives. “[They] completely changed my perspective on birth, on my body ...