According to CBS News, the U.S. birth rate has dropped below 1.6 in 2024, marking one of the lowest points in American ...

Birth rates are generally declining for women in most age groups — and that doesn’t seem likely to change in the near future, ...

Marshall Pierce and Kelcee Marcum of Holly welcomed a baby girl, Laynee Jo Pierce, on July 21, 2025 at Prowers Medical Center in Lamar.  Laynee was born at 4:38 p.m., weighed 5 pounds 10 ounces ...

Breastfeeding Event Scheduled for Aug. 2 at Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Big Latch On to Take Place During World ...

Closing the Birthing Center is more than about budgets. It’s about access, dignity and the kind of community we want to be.

NEWPORT – Dozens of parents marched along Broadway on July 24, pushing baby carriages or carrying toddlers with one hand ...

Community members will rally Tuesday evening to oppose the potential closure of the only labor and delivery unit on Aquidneck ...

(WJAR) — The community is speaking out against a possible plan to close the birthing center at Newport Hospital. Brown ...

In Florida, Black women experience disproportionately high rates of maternal and infant mortality — a fact two local ...

Could the United States, which has a maternal mortality rate much higher than other wealthy nations, benefit from MHI’s ...

HILLSBORO, Ala. (WAFF /Gray News) — A woman gave birth to her son on a sidewalk just feet away from a birthing center. Mercedes Bolden and her husband were driving to the Alabama Birth Center in ...

HILLSBORO, Ala. (WAFF/Gray News) — A woman gave birth to her son on a sidewalk just feet away from a birthing center. Mercedes Bolden and her husband were driving to the Alabama Birth Center in ...