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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Confident and unafraid — not many mothers would describe their feelings during childbirth with these words, but they are the words Charissa Peterson uses to describe giving birth to her youngest ...

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 ...

When the World Health Organization declared in May 2019 that 2020 would be the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, the Upstate's midwives didn't think part of their recognition would come in the form ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 7. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. I loved the beginning of the episode where we see the ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — While there is a growing interest in home birth as an alternative to the hospital birth process, there are no health and safety regulations in regards to the practice in most states ...

An Omaha woman was arrested on felony charges Wednesday after overseeing a birth as a midwife that resulted in the death of the baby, authorities said. Angela Hock was charged with negligent child ...

Senior certified professional midwife students Samantha Woolman, left, and Louise Zook clean off Chelsey Montogmery-Gusta’s newborn baby boy Dec. 5, 2022, while Shiphrah Birth Services Owner and CPM ...