Giving Birth Alone Causes Longer Postpartum Recovery A "myopic, non-data driven policy" such as this could lead, she wrote, to more birth-related trauma, postpartum depression, and anxiety.

New York City hospitals are trying to restrict labor and delivery visitors due to COVID-19 fears. One expectant mom shares how that may affect her birth.

By the 1960s, women giving birth in hospitals frequently found themselves left to labour alone for long hours in sterile hospital environments.

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It isn’t relaxing'.” She goes on to recall giving birth to all six of her children without any help – even delivering her first baby alone in a forest in Sweden in the early hours of the ...

A Virginia woman used her motherly instincts to safely give birth alone in a hotel room in Istanbul, Turkey. In her now viral Twitter thread, Tia Freeman details she found out she was pregnant ...

I prepared to give birth on my own I relaxed into a quiet delivery room and just hoped Jackie would arrive overnight so we could all reunite in the morning.

After surviving the tsunami, many women are facing the danger of giving birth alone — a grim legacy of the loss of hundreds of midwives among the disaster’s dead.

"In no hospital in New York will a woman be forced to be alone when she gives birth. Not now, not ever," Governor Andrew Cuomo tweeted Saturday.

The dispatcher stayed on the phone with the mom the entire time and after about 10 minutes, she gave birth to her second son all by herself.