The vast majority of children in the United States are born in a hospital, but the number of planned home births has gone up significantly in the past few years. At the root of this growing trend ...

Kent County, home to the city of Grand Rapids, had nearly 2,200 more births than deaths ... as new babies dropped to their ...

The most common reasons given for wanting to birth at home were: 1) safety (n = 38); 2) avoidance of unnecessary medical interventions common in hospital births (n = 38); 3) previous negative ...