The COVID-19 pandemic forced plenty of aspects of the patient care journey to take place at home, but one potentially risky trend involves “free births,” which have gained traction on TikTok in recent ...

The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, last week has prompted fresh concerns about giving birth without a midwife or medical assistance. This follows ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

A small but growing community of TikTokers is glorifying the dangerous practice of "free birth." Free birth is giving birth with no medical attendants and sometimes forgoing prenatal care. OB-GYNs ...

There were more than 50,000 home births in the United States last year. That marked the highest total since at least 1990 and a 12% increase from 2020. Though home births are becoming more common, ...

WHEN ADAM BOYLE got a phone call from his father to say that his sister Naomi had been taken to hospital following complications during her home birth, he somehow knew that the worst was going to ...