When contractions started in the middle of an ordinary day in Wisconsin, a math teacher expecting a routine hospital delivery suddenly found herself laboring on her own bathroom floor. In the chaos, ...
Amid a rise in home births, mistrust between midwives and hospitals can put mothers and babies at risk. With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room ...
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