The Women’s Center at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center is now the first and only hospital in Central Texas offering water births. In early spring, two rooms were outfitted with birthing tubs and ...

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 ...

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center, the only free-standing birthing center in the state since 1997, recently changed hands as national trends show that these types of facilities are growing ...

New Delhi: There’s something quietly irresistible about the idea of a water birth: warm water, buoyant comfort, less pain, and a gentler entrance into the world. Lately, more birthing centres and ...

When pregnant women drink water that comes from wells downstream of sites contaminated with PFAS, known as "forever chemicals," the risks to their babies' health substantially increase, a new study ...