A very small, but passionate, group of parents are advocates for a type of unassisted birth known as "free birth." Here's why ...

Marissa Heckel, a woman from Columbus Grove, Ohio, had a difficult first delivery at a hospital, and so for her second child, she decided to do things a little differently. Well, very differently. She ...

With women opting for "free birth" or "unassisted birth" the stakes are only getting higher. Dismissing medical advice is also taking the form of a misguided practice of prolonging delivery well ...

A new mother welcomed her first baby into the world in an outdoor bathtub after choosing to have a medically unassisted birth. Hannah Taylor, 23, grew up with “scary” stories about childbirth from her ...

Laura Shanley not only had her four children at home, but she birthed them without a doctor or midwife. Hunkered over a plastic tub, she even tugged out a breech baby by herself while her husband was ...

Krissy Rich had been in active labor for five hours on the floor of her Fremont bathroom when her daughter Jasrael descended. To ease the pressure, Rich reached her fingernail inside and popped her ...

After experiencing some complications while delivering her daughter in the hospital, Marissa Heckel, a mom from Columbus Grove, OH, knew that she wanted to do things very differently for her second ...

Allissa Pugh, of Milford, is an unlikely poster child for the rights of pregnant and laboring women. But in a ruling last week, the state's Supreme Judicial Court effectively said that the actions of ...