More than 50 hospitals have shut down L&D services in the past decade, with financial instability, declining birth rates and ...

Elissa West helped her daughter Alysa give birth to her baby boy in a parking lot after she unexpectedly went into labor ...

Haywood Regional Medical Center has a new pain management option for laboring mothers. The use of Pro-Nox nitrous oxide, ...

The department said the settlement is a result of the hospital failing to provide an interpreter for a pregnant mother, including during labor and delivery, recovery, and other hospital visits.

Midwives can provide additional services, including postnatal care for mothers and babies and emotional support during labor and delivery. A doula is a trained professional who has experience in ...

while elective prelabor Caesarean delivery poses relatively minor risks to mothers. The choice between a policy of early elective delivery (by either induction of labor or Caesarean section ...