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A growing number of women in the U.S. are opting to give birth at home rather than at a hospital. Data shows more than 50,000 ...

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With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room seemed less likely.

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 ...