Home births have doubled in the area served by a scandal-hit hospital that was forced to close its maternity unit earlier ...

A hospital has said a woman's choice to have a home birth "is not affected" by the closure of its dedicated home birthing team. Bedford Hospital announced on Wednesday that home births would be ...

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

Laura Liston’s death after the birth of her son at home led the HSE to suspend home births in the midwest region ...

Criteria for selecting studies were as follows. For the required population, pregnant women attempted home birth, meaning that they were accepted for a planned home birth at the onset of labour. The ...