You don’t even need to be pregnant to see a midwife, a common misconception. We also do fertility counseling, perform pap ...

Brianna Mckenzie was feverish and shaking in her bed as night drew near at MLK Community Hospital. The pregnant woman was a week and a half past her due date. She had come to the Willowbrook hospital ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

Usually your cervix will open up naturally on its own once you’re ready to go into labor. But if your cervix shows no signs of dilating and effacing (softening, opening, thinning) to allow your baby ...

When Tess Camp was pregnant with her second child, she knew she would need to get to the hospital fast when the baby came. Her first labor had been short for a first-time mother (seven hours), and ...

As low-intervention childbirth methods increase in the U.S., hospitals are offering pregnant moms a variety of options to help them be more comfortable during labor and delivery. A new ...