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 ...

Women who use water immersion during labor and birth experience better maternal and neonatal outcomes compared to those who receive epidural anesthesia, according to a study led by midwife Soledad ...

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.

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 ...

Across all post-treatment periods, estimated changes in birth weight were small and not statistically meaningful, ranging from a decrease of 8.4 grams to an increase of 7.2 grams. Overall, the study ...

Analysis of more than 11.4 million births across 677 US counties revealed community water fluoridation (CWF) had no association with changes in birth weight or other birth outcomes. The findings from ...