There is no evidence that water births, where a baby is intentionally born under water in a tub or pool, poses any increased harm to the child, Oregon State University researchers have found.

The Women’s Center at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center is now the first and only hospital in Central Texas offering water births. In early spring, two rooms were outfitted with birthing tubs and ...

Your baby spends nine months floating in the warm, cozy comfort of amniotic fluid, so a water birth in a tub or birthing pool might seem like a natural way of welcoming her into the world. But while ...

In this difference-in-differences analysis, birth weight and other outcomes were unchanged after communities fluoridated their water. Changes in birth weight following community water fluoridation ...