Giving birth at home or in the car when you were planning on making it to the hospital or birth center? Totally not the plan – and definitely not common, despite what TV dramas would have you believe.

Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University The death of premature twins in Byron Bay in an apparent “wild birth”, or free birth, ...

Medical intervention in human birth has become so widespread that spontaneous delivery is an increasingly rare event. Yet convincing evidence reveals an underlying 24-hour biorhythm, reflecting a ...