In newly-released findings, an Australian coroner determined that the 2022 death of "Baby E" was preventable In December 2022, a newborn died after her mom gave birth in a birthing pool without ...

If you imagine birth, you might picture bright lights, machines, and the hum of hospital staff. Yet for many expectant mothers, that environment feels too clinical or impersonal. Pregnancy already ...

Michel Odent, a French obstetrician whose natural childbirth innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, aimed to make new mothers feel calm and secure, died Aug. 19 in London.

As Sheryl crouched on all fours in a birthing pool in a Yorkshire hospital, she became convinced her baby boy was going to die. Between the crippling contractions that felt like a hot knife through ...

According to findings filed with the Coroners Court of Victoria earlier this month, the mother got the birthing pool from Emily Lal, a social media influencer In an Instagram Story post viewed by ...