Birth (journal)

{{Infobox journal

| title = Birth

| cover =

| former_name = Birth and the Family Journal

| abbreviation = Birth

| discipline = Nursing, obstetrics and gynecology

| editor = Melissa Cheyney

| publisher = John Wiley & Sons

| country =

| history = 1973-present

| frequency = Quarterly

| openaccess =

| license =

| impact = 3.689

| impact-year = 2020

| ISSN = 0730-7659

| eISSN = 1523-536X

| CODEN =

| JSTOR =

| LCCN = 82642864

| OCLC = 900950990

| website = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1523536x/homepage/productinformation.html

| link1 = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1523536x/current

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/1523536x

| link2-name = Online archive

}}

Birth is a quarterly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research on childbirth and related topics. It was established in 1973 as Birth and the Family Journal, with as its founding editor-in-chief Madeleine H. Shearer,{{cite journal |last1=Shearer |first1=Madeleine H. |title=Editorial |journal=Birth |date=December 1973 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=2 |doi=10.1111/j.1523-536X.1973.tb00652.x}} obtaining its current name in 1982.{{cite web |url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8302042 |title=Birth |work=NLM Catalog |publisher=National Center for Biotechnology Information |accessdate=2020-02-03}} It is published by John Wiley & Sons and the editor-in-chief is Melissa Cheyney.