Most babies are born in hospitals or birth centers – but if labor moves fast, it helps to be prepared. Here's how to stay ...

Shayanna Markham was having contractions and was 5 cm dilated when she was examined at the hospital. The doctor gave her a choice: Be admitted to the hospital knowing it might take hours or days until ...

This mom could give labor in her sleep. Beccaa Areli slept through her contractions, and later gave birth to her daughter in a car on the way to the hospital. She posted about the “craziest experience ...

There are many options for giving birth — using an epidural, going unmedicated, hiring a doula or midwife, or delivering in a ...

Jaycee Rolf always knew she wanted to have a natural at labor at home in Alabama. But, on March 2, when the family nurse practitioner began experiencing contractions every 3 to 5 minutes, she decided ...

A pregnant woman was sent home from the hospital after a midwife mistook her painful contractions for a urine infection - only for her to give birth hours later. Philippa Wadsworth was rushed to ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Hollis James Wedding was determined to make a swift entrance into the world. There was no time to wait – not even for the midwife hired to help deliver the baby at the Weddings' ...

I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew. I was thirty-nine years old, didn’t have a job, and lived in one of the most expensive cities on the planet. I had always assumed that I’d have kids ...

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (KSNW) — It was an early arrival for an Arkansas City couple. The City of Arkansas City says fire and EMS were called to the home of Mary Trenary and Donovan Dean around 11:30 a.m.