While pregnancy and having a child are exciting, labor and birth can be a nerve-wracking time, especially if you’re trying to decide which birthing method is best for you. If you’re thinking about ...

More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a “more comfortable and happy event” is being slighted in the current craze for “natural childbirth,” says a team of four Baltimore ...

Margaret J. Gamper, a pioneer of modern natural childbirth, died March 18 of heart failure at a hospice in Skokie, Ill. She was 94. The native of Janesville, Wis., ran away from home at 19 to attend ...