Senate passes bill giving pregnant women more birthing options. Pregnant women in Kentucky may soon have another option when it comes to labor and delivery: free-standing birthing centers. Northern ...

The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 5—Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an ...

Freestanding birth centers like Skanes’ could help fill the gaps, but they too are struggling to stay open. They face some of the same financial pressures that bedevil hospitals’ labor and delivery ...