Birthing centers, which offer natural, low-intervention births to low-risk moms, are becoming more and more popular. But regardless of demand, they’re struggling to stay open. When Kimberly Kleoppel ...

After the birthing experience of Mercedes Wells, a bill was introduced to ensure women in active labor cannot be turned away ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

The Michigan Legislature allocated $1.2 million in the fiscal year 2025 budget for prenatal, birthing and postpartum services at Aspirus Ironwood Hospital in the western Upper Peninsula. The Michigan ...

The labor and delivery floor is the one place in the hospital where everyone going in is happy. The excitement and expectation of a healthy new baby is almost universal. So, when things go wrong, bad ...

In monthly meetings, Ms. Culver made doctors aware of their C-section rates compared with their peers’. She also hung “first ...

Planning for labor and delivery means thinking through your options – and for some moms-to-be, that includes going medication-free. "If your goal is a medication-free delivery, that is absolutely ...

When Kimberly Kleoppel envisioned the birth of her fourth baby, she pictured warm lighting and a birthing tub. She wanted it to go a lot like the birth of her third baby. Kleoppel delivered a girl at ...