Being pregnant can be a lonely experience if you don't know anybody else who's going through the same thing. Having a friend or loved one you can commiserate with when you're dealing with morning ...

Your baby spends nine months floating in the warm, cozy comfort of amniotic fluid, so a water birth in a tub or birthing pool might seem like a natural way of welcoming her into the world. But while ...

Hospitals are increasingly giving women the option of going through labor or giving birth in a pool of warm water. Laboring in the tub is fine, the nation's obstetricians and pediatricians say, but ...

A New Hampshire woman gave birth to her baby last week standing up in her home bathtub. The baby boy was Shannon Therrian’s second. She said, comparatively, she didn’t feel much pain with the ...

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 ...

BEVERLY — Beverly Hospital says it is close to opening a birthing tub, eight months past a deadline imposed by the state Attorney General’s office following the controversial closing of the North ...