Home births are on the rise and some delivery room nurses are stepping out of the hospital and into midwifery to offer expectant mothers "concierge" care. Home birth has ancient roots in every culture. Most families delivered their babies at home with midwives or family doctors until the early 1900s, when a major push moved birth into the hospital. New procedures, medications and technologies were appealing, and soon mothers were led to believe they were necessary. Birth was taken out of the hands of women and placed in the hands of predominantly male physicians, almost exclusively...