Analysis from FAIR Health in 2024 found that the national median hospital charge for a vaginal delivery in the U.S. was just over $31,000, while a C-section had a median charge of around $44,400, for ...

Alena Wells could have entered the world surrounded by her family and medical professionals. Instead, she was born on Nov. 16 in the front seat of a Chevrolet Silverado as her father, Leon Wells, ...

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MUNSTER, Ind. (WBBM) - A mother and father are demanding policy changes at an Indiana hospital after they claim they were turned away and left to deliver their own baby in their car. Video posted by ...

The author and her daughter Kessler's first selfie together on the day she was born. Photo Courtesy Of Zakkiyya Reece Even as a first-time mother, I thought I understood childbirth. I’d spent my ...

Mercedes Wells says she knew something was wrong when she went to the hospital to give birth and they did not put her in a labor and delivery room. Instead, 38-year-old Mercedes says, she spent six ...

Amanda Koop, of Michigan, watched her son being born via cesarean section. A hospital in Michigan is giving birthing parents a new way to stay connected during a cesarean section delivery. Spectrum ...

The sisters' sons were also the same weight and height at birth. Identical twin sisters Jill Justiniani and Erin Cheplak share the same birthday, and now their newborn sons do, too. Justiniani and ...

A woman who was turned away from an Indiana hospital while in labor last month, only to give birth minutes later in her car, ...