Kansas-based photographer Tammy Karin never passes up an opportunity to capture a water birth. “The mother has this warm, protective barrier around her in which to bring her baby into the world,” ...

A water birth means at least part of your labor, delivery, or both happen while you’re in a birth pool filled with warm water. It can take place in a hospital, a birthing center, or at home. A doctor, ...

Screen Shot 2016-05-20 at 12.28.41 PM.png A woman undergoes labor in a water-birth suite at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland in February 2014. That's the same month the hospital ...

Water births get boost from Brazilian supermodel, who makes home delivery sexy. Feb. 2, 2010— -- Breaking from a culture where hospital births are the norm and Caesarian rates are the highest in ...

Hospitals are increasingly giving women the option of going through labor or giving birth in a pool of warm water. Laboring in the tub is fine, the nation's obstetricians and pediatricians say, but ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. — New research from researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) offers strong evidence that water births are a safe option for typical pregnancies. OSU's study is the largest of its ...