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Most people agree that where and how to give birth is a personal choice. But what if your choice is one that many doctors feel is dangerous for you and your baby? A resurgence in the home birthing movement has doctors and midwives grappling with this question, and Babble’s own Ada Calhoun has researched...

Actress and star of Secret Diary Of A Call Girl , Billie Piper wants to avoid having her baby at the hospital - so she's hoping to have her first child at home! British Piper and her husband Laurence Fox have decided they would like a home water birth. A pal said to the Sunday Express , "Billie...

Well, would you? What if she had trained for four years as a midwife and performed more than 100 c-sections under the eye of an actual surgeon? Still no? Well, maybe me too. I don't know. But! I have the good fortune of not ... being desperately poor and living in rural Mozambique, where there are...

Some things go great together. Chocolate and peanut butter. Milk and cookies. Childbirth and orgasms. What, you disagree? You think that it's unbelievably weird to be thinking about sex while your child is being born? What are you, a stiff? There's a scene in Edward Albee's play " The...

Is it just me, or have 911 operators been getting a bad rap lately? Callers have been kept on hold, kids in crisis have been accused of making up stories, help hasn't arrived in time. But Janet Jones, from Sarasota County, Florida, may have just redeemed 911 operators everywhere with the calm and...

A pretty blonde actress gave birth recently - who popped their bundle of joy out? Canadian born, Kelly Rowan, " The O.C ." star gave birth to her daughter on April 28. Her rep said, "Kelly Rowan gave birth to a happy and healthy baby girl in Los Angeles on April 28. Mom and daughter are...

One Tennessee midwife is touting her “orgasmic births” or, if you prefer, births with a happy ending. Fellow blogger Kelly has written about the birth orgasm phenomenon here. Now this midwife is selling the baby "O". Everybody knows you’re not supposed to enjoy giving birth. Now you say orgasming...

About the last thing you'd want to hear when planning an upcoming birth is that the place you're going to give birth in? The hospital? May be one of the worst places for your baby. Yikes. But a new (small) study looked at 388 babies born in a teaching hospital in the south of France during most...

Yesterday was the date the mags and rags told us one Christina to the Aguilera had her baby, possibly by scheduled cesarean section . Jennifer Block wrote our fair lady an open letter on HuffPo before the blessed event, opening with the statement that it is every woman's choice how she does her birth...

When I read stories about women who opt to give birth at home allllll by themselves -- no help from a midwife or a doctor or a staff of nurses -- I think to myself, "can you blame them?" I know, I know, a lot of you are thinking these people are just trying to be heroes or adhere to some kind...