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LOS ANGELES Pasadena mother Joya Roy comes from a medical family. Her father is professor of gynecology at USC. Her mother is a registered nurse. So it came as a bit of a surprise when Joya decided to ...

There are water births, and then there's this. Josy Peukert gave birth to her son, appropriately named Bodhi Amor Ocean Cornelius, in the Pacific Ocean. Only her husband, Benni Cornelius, was there.

"In an ideal world, an unassisted childbirth wouldn’t have been our first choice, but it turned out to be the best decision we ever made," writes author Malcolm Kempt When the pandemic restrictions ...