ST. PAUL - Thirty-six-year-old Sarah Biermeier doesn't fit the midwife stereotype. "I'm not a hippie with a long, flowing dress and Birkenstocks waving my smudge stick around," she says with a laugh.

VINTON — Bethany Gates became interested in helping women during their pregnancy after her first home birth. Gates gave birth to her first daughter in a hospital, but chose to give birth to her second ...

Tiffany Vassell, a labor and delivery nurse, left a Boston hospital two days early after giving birth to her son seven months ago, exhausted by what she described as inadequate care that forced the ...

Throughout the pandemic, Chrissy Owens and Ildiko Baugus have seen an increase in interest for the work they do. The women, both certified midwives, co-own EVa Home Birth. Their practice, with ...

SEVEN AT TEN. DOUGLAS COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY THIS WAS AT AN INFANT’S BIRTH IN MARCH WHEN THE BABY DIED AND THEY SAY IT WASN’T THE FIRST TIME. THANKS FOR JOINING. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. I’M JULIE CORNELL.

In the state of Washington, a planned home birth with a licensed midwife is just as safe as a birth at a licensed birth center. Researchers arrived at this conclusion after analyzing outcomes of more ...

Mandy King laid back on a large, brown couch at Shiphrah Birth Services in Vinton, Iowa, as soft piano music streamed from a TV in the background. Her three young children — ages 3, 5 and 7 — played ...

It’s the middle of the night, and Autumn Cavender drives down a country road through the pitch-black darkness. It’s a familiar routine for Cavender, who explains that most babies are born between 11 p ...

Amidst Georgia’s maternal mortality crisis, a group of midwives is challenging Georgia’s restrictive laws in court in a ...