Birthing pools at the Inverurie Midwife Unit are to be brought back into use after being closed for more than three years. They have been shut since 2020 due to "complex" water quality issues.

According to findings filed with the Coroners Court of Victoria earlier this month, the mother got the birthing pool from Emily Lal, a social media influencer In an Instagram Story post viewed by ...

For nine months, McKayla Kennard joked that she and her younger sister, Adrianna Kennard, were expecting “cousin twins.” Then, on June 18, the siblings, who live in Akron, Ohio, welcomed their babies ...

In December 2022, a newborn died after her mom had a "planned freebirth" in a birthing pool she got from a social media influencer. Nearly three years later, authorities in Australia say that her ...

His innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, were based on his belief that “human birth cannot work as long as a woman is thinking.” By Adam Nossiter Michel Odent, a French ...

A hospital in Yorkshire was forced to close its birthing pools because of concerns about water quality. York Hospital’s birthing pools are used for women who want to labour and give birth in water.

Michel Odent, a French obstetrician whose natural childbirth innovations, including homelike delivery rooms and birthing pools, aimed to make new mothers feel calm and secure, died Aug. 19 in London.