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During the last weeks of pregnancy, expectant moms will start to pack their labor and delivery bags for the hospital. Here's birth information to help gather essentials

Various complications arise during labour requiring certain delivery procedures to be implemented to aid faster and safer birth of the baby.

As frigid air drops out of the arctic, homeowners scramble - sometimes belatedly - to protect their water systems from freezing. Here are a few helpful tips.

Whether to get an epidural during labor and delivery is one question on most pregnant women's minds. Here's birth information that can help with the choice.

On the morning of September 1st 1923, a devastating earthquake located on the Kanto Plain in Japan caused mass destruction and death in Tokyo and Yokohama.

One of the most devastating storms in Atlantic Canada history, Hurricane Juan made landfall near Halifax, Nova Scotia on September 29, 2003.

The Sumatra earthquake occurred only hours after an 8.0 magnitude struck the Samoan Islands and triggered a 20 foot tsunami which killed over 100 people.

Daniel Halladay's invention of the first commercially successful self-regulating windmill was an important factor in the settlement of western lands.

Some of the benefits of choosing a home birth are an intervention-free birth, quicker labor, easier recovery and a great start to breastfeeding.

Early in your pregnancy, there are several interview questions you can ask while selecting your own obstetrician or midwife.