These stories were enough to make him craft an 'exit' strategy and avoid accompanying his wife during childbirth ... for men of the blanket expectation to be there at birth," says the journal.

has taken an official position on this -- that labor and delivery present potential hazards to mother and fetus before and after birth. "Those hazards," according to ACOG's Web site, "require ...

I wondered if 296 men would have died between 2020 and 2022 either during pregnancy or within 42 days postpartum right here in the UK, and whether giving birth would still be treated as par for the ...

The midwife responds, "Well, it's its normal color." To which Taylor responds, "I wanna wait until it's white to cut it." She then appears to look up at her midwife who doesn't seem to respond to ...

Birdsall is among a growing population of women who are foregoing the traditional labor and delivery unit in a hospital and are instead giving birth in centers run by midwives. Birdsall's youngest ...

people giving birth can’t count on their closest hospital having the specialized health care they need. Researchers tallied losses and gains of labor and delivery units at close to 5,000 U.S ...