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 ...

America's obstetricians are weighing in on the increasingly popular practice of women giving birth underwater. In a new report out Thursday, doctors say immersing a woman in a tub of warm water to ...

The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, last week has prompted fresh concerns about giving birth without a midwife or medical assistance. This follows ...