Childbirth can be a beautiful and rewarding experience. However, even in the best of situations, it can also be traumatic for both mother and baby. That can be especially true in cases where medical ...

There are three ways a baby can be born: a spontaneous vaginal birth where the mother pushes the baby out herself, an instrumental vaginal birth where forceps or vacuum extractors are used to pull the ...

Vacuum extraction birth carries risks for mother and fetus. Now, new instructions stipulate how such emergency births should be managed. In vacuum extraction, a rubber dome is placed on the baby's ...