The Free Birth Society advised pregnant women to avoid doctors and midwives, with deadly consequences. The bigger tragedy is the brutal system the women were so desperate to flee. Jennifer Block is an ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Before Ivey Cross was ever expecting, she was glued to TikTok videos of women describing their experiences of giving birth at home. Twenty-five weeks into her own pregnancy, she decided to do so ...

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