You’ve been laboring when you start to feel the urge to push that baby out! There are many pushing positions; it’s not one size fits all. Pushing can…
Well, you have waited a long time and the big moment for you and your growing family is fi nally here! You are in early labor—what emotions are…
Who would have ever imagined a large exercise-like ball shaped like a peanut would become an essential tool in helping your labor progress? If you are preparing for…
View Post Choosing an Unmedicated, Natural Birth Planning to birth without medication or unnecessary interventions is becoming increasingly popular. To plan a unmedicated natural birth, surround yourself with…
Giving birth is a powerful, joyful, and yes, painful experience. Happily, birthing people have lots of choices to help cope with pain relief during labor, particularly pain medications.…
If you’ve never experienced cesarean, then cesarean recovery process can be somewhat of a shock. Cesarean is major surgery; you’ll need at least 4-6 weeks for your incision…
Birthing surgically by cesarean section hardly seems something you’d call gentle, but a new term is emerging to describe how some hospitals are trying to make surgical birth…
In most birth settings, just as soon as a baby is born the umbilical cord is clamped and a parent or nurse typically makes the grand gesture of…