Ricki Lake's Film Documenting Her Own At-Home Birth Ignites a Debate
Like a growing number of mothers-to-be, actress and former talk show host Ricki Lake chose to forgo the hospital and give birth at home for her second pregnancy.

Docs to Women: Pay No Attention to Ricki Lake's Home Birth

Ladies, the physicians of America have issued their decree: they don't want you having your babies at home with midwives.
We can't imagine why not. Study upon study have shown that planning a home birth with a trained midwife is a great choice if you want to avoid unnecessary medical intervention.

In the Rio Grande Valley, the Holy Family Services Birth Center is the only place that offers birth in water, midwife Michelle Benfield said.

Mayor Menino to Proclaim May 24 Boston Nurse-Midwifery Day at ACNM's Inaugural Women's Health Expo

An interesting article regarding a birth story from Ethiopia, including some startling statistics including: "The probability that an Ethiopian woman will die from a maternal cause during her reproductive life span is 1 in 27, slightly better than the 1 in 22 for all of Africa. Compare that to a probability of 1 in 4,800 for the U.S. or 1 in 8,200 in the U.K."

Hundreds of Amish people rode buses to Harrisburg on April 9th to support a woman who has delivered thousands of their babies.