Weeks after I gave birth, my doctor said sex was OK, but I was focused on how painful pooping was. When it comes to maternal care, mothers are taught how to care for babies but not for themselves.

Watching the snow fall outside her bedroom window while holding her newborn, as her husband brought her a cheeseburger and an old fashioned, Hope Payton-Carrillo had no doubt that home birth was the ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon — In the largest national study of its kind, Oregon State University researchers found that low-risk, planned home births are as safe as planned births at accredited birth centers.