Home Birth Blues: 49 states allow nurse midwives to deliver your baby inside your home. Not Nebraska.

By Flatwater Free Press

June 18, 2026Updated: June 19, 2026

By News Channel Nebraska

Kirsten Johnson spends time with her children Nash, 1 1/2, and Colt Trosper, two months, at her parents’ home in Shelton earlier this month. Photo by Lily Smith/Flatwater Free Press

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