Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier this ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty minutes. That’s how long it might have taken Rebeca Cervantes to travel from her Madera home to St. Agnes Medical Center in ...

Vanessa Mendoza wouldn’t risk giving birth in Imperial County hospitals – but when her time came, not all went as planned. The first time she gave birth, she lived in San Diego and delivered at a ...

With recent closures of hospital birthing wards, the role of birth centers has become increasingly essential, especially for women of color. Nikki Helms is a midwife. She owns San Diego Community ...

Labour is a very daunting experience, even if you have already had a baby in your life - but one midwife has explained five ...

Registered nurse Missy Rambin cares for 22-day-old Bodie Cisco in the special care nursery at Mercy Health-St. Rita’s Medical Center. LIMA — It is a moment most parents will never forget: hearing the ...

BAKER CITY — It was the middle of the night on April 2, 2024, when Teela Banister went into labor. She and her husband raced out the door of their rural home on the outskirts of Baker City, hoping to ...

That’s how long it might have taken Rebeca Cervantes to travel from her Madera home to St. Agnes Medical Center in Fresno, where she expected to give birth to her first daughter. But Cervantes was 8 ...