The median in-network cost for a vaginal delivery is $15,178, and the average C-section costs $19,292, according to healthcare data company Fair Health. Fair Health calculated the cost of giving birth ...

California labor and delivery units are closing at a rate three times faster than in other parts of the country, putting safe birth at risk.

After three decades of nursing, the sentiment that inspired Ladawna Walker to get into the profession still rings true: ...

Nearly 60 hospitals and labor and delivery units across California have closed since 2012; roughly 30% of those were in Los ...

When she arrived in 2006, up to 30 women might deliver babies daily in a worn-torn hospital with a single midwife.​​ Now, MHI’s highly effective model, called the Framework for Quality Maternal and ...

With her second child, she recalled a similarly rapid arrival. "My midwife went to check my dilation, then very quickly told me to stop pushing, and I replied that I wasn't. My son just came on his ...

As a suburban hospital aims to eliminate labor and delivery services, a community is reacting with shock and outrage at the news.

The Supreme Court paved the way for Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to soon take effect in some parts of the country. Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern ...

Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach offers free labor & delivery class Topics include labor comfort and procedures, newborn care, and breastfeeding.

Managing Labor and Delivery of the Diabetic Mother Hen Y. Sela, MD; Itamar Raz, MD; Uriel Elchalal, MD Disclosures Expert Rev of Obstet Gynecol. 2009;4 (5):547-554.

Maternity care deserts in Wyoming can push women to Utah for childbirth services. Hospital closures and financial struggles worsen access to labor and delivery care. Proposed solutions include ...

SURE EXPECTING MOTHERS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES CAN GET MEDICAL CARE WHEN THEY NEED IT. SENATOR MAGGIE HASSAN IS PROPOSING A BILL THAT WOULD INCREASE MEDICAID PAYMENT RATES FOR LABOR AND DELIVERY ...