Do you know your best way to labor? Close your eyes and imagine you’re in labor. If you picture the scene as it occurs regularly in movies, on…
Have you thought about your placenta today? Probably not, but your placenta is an amazing organ with the very important job of nourishing and protecting your developing baby.…
When you begin labor, it’s common to have a baseline electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) tracing of at least 20 minutes. After that, how often your baby’s heart rate…
Are you considering induction? Inducing labor is common—but experts agree that unless it’s for a medical reason, induction is risky and best avoided. In recent years there has…
Hour 1 The throes of labor have just ended and you see baby for the first time… well, you get glimpses of baby as he is having his…