On the heels of the 3rd International Breech Conference is this article about the resurgence of vaginal breech birth in some Australian hos...

Our local hospital closed its maternity department in March, leaving a gap in OB coverage in our region. This came as a surprise to our com...

Joanne is a software engineer in Ontario, Canada. Her first child was born in 2007 at Kitchener Ontario's Grand River Hospital , which s...

Childbirth is a big business. A recent article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune , Definitely, Not Your Mother's Maternity Ward , explores...

Henci Goer recently wrote about a pilot study examining the effect of birth room design & furniture on the progress of labor. In her Sci...

A hospital's birth policies and routines can vary dramatically from one to another, as Rebirth, a nurse-midwife blogger, illustrated in ...

One of my readers, doctorjen , submitted this birth story for the book giveaway. I am reposting it here with her permission. She is a famil...

Here are a few recent articles that are worth reading given recent discussions about VBACs , cesarean sections (elective or otherwise), and ...

I just got home from touring another hospital in my area that is about 30 minutes away. Like my home town C., the town of L. is the county s...

Pamela Paul, author of the Times article The Trouble With Repeat Cesareans , wrote another article in The Huffington Post : Childbirth Witho...

I might start doing a weekly wrap-up of miscellaneous news & articles that I find interesting. If I wait much longer than week, they sta...

In an effort to lower maternal and infant mortality rates, one Ecuadorian hospital has implemented a "vertical maternity ward" in ...

It's time to clean out my files and bookmarks again. Are antibiotics beneficial for preterm labor or PPROM ? Preterm Abx beneficial for...