A newborn baby in Australia died after her mother delivered her in a ‘home-birthing’ pool hired from freebirth-promoting influencer Emily Lal. As per the findings of the Coroners Court of Victoria, it ...

An NHS trust said the birthing pool at one of its hospitals will be temporarily suspended for necessary improvements to the ...

For healthy, low-risk people who labour in well-run hospital or midwifery settings, water immersion (and sometimes water birth) can be a perfectly reasonable and satisfying option. The evidence so far ...