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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are you weighing home birth vs hospital birth? Follow one woman’s journey through both childbirth options, and learn what questions to ask midwife. Deciding where your baby will be born can have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Gold Coast midwife has been slammed for providing a dishonest recollection to a tribunal after she failed to provide ...