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Are you ready for the delivery room?
A delivery room checklist. Everything you'll need to remember when labor begins and you're too flustered to remember you own name.
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Benefits of Water Birth
Using water during labor and delivery is a real alternative to pain-relieving drugs. While there is a downside to the drugs, waterbirth has numerous benefits for both baby and mom.
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Childbirth Class 101
With such a wide variety of options, it is important for expectant parents to research the different classes available to them, in order to find one to meet their needs.
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How to Pack a Labor and Delivery Bag
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
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How to Prepare for a Natural Labor and Delivery
During the months leading to labor and delivery, a pregnant woman has time to attend birth classes and plan crucial details . Here's important birth information to help.
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Premature Labor and Delivery
An infant born at 38 to 42 gestational weeks is considered full-term. When a baby is delivered before 37 weeks, the infant is considered a premature birth, or preemie.
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Restrictions After a Caesarean Section
Learn about the restrictions that are most common after a caesarean section.
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Should You Brave the Delivery Room?
An essay on the changing role of fathers and the new emphasis on dads in the delivery room.
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The Three Phases Of Labor
Labor is separated into three distinct phases, early, active and transition. Each phase has its own distinct characteristics.
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The Three Phases Of Labor
Labor is separated into three distinct phases, early, active and transition. Each phase has its own distinct characteristics.
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How-to Write a Birth Plan When Expecting a Baby
Before entering the labor and delivery room, create a birth plan. There is more to planning than one might expect. Explore options, be honest, and expect the unexpected.
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What to Expect When You Are Induced
There are many different situations that determine what induced labor will be like for Mom and Baby. Knowing in advance what can happen makes delivery less stressful.
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Birth Options for New Mothers
It is important for pregnant moms to understand their birthing options and be prepared for this important occasion.
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Braxton Hicks Contractions: A Precurser To Labor?
Braxton Hicks Contractions are just one of the many amazing things a woman's body goes through to prepare for labor. Are they a precurser to labor? How can you tell the difference between false labor and real labor?
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Preparing For Labor: Touring The Hospital Or Birthing Center
Taking a tour of your birthing center or hospital is an important part of preparing for your impending labor and delivery.
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Arriving At The Hospital: What Happens Next?
Many expectant mothers have visions of spontaneously going into labor and rushing into the hospital moments before delivering. However, many find that this scene plays out a lot differently than they had imagined.
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Birth Information for Moms Wanting Natural Birth
Many women hope for a natural labor and delivery . here is birth information that can help them experience a natural child birth and enjoy the miracle along the way.
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Bringing Your Newborn Home
All mothers experience excitement, anticipation and fear in the nine months before bringing home their baby. Moms can prepare for the new arrival in the following ways.
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Doulas In The Delivery Room
Doulas are increasing in popularity, should you hire one?
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Fathers Create Strong Bonds During Pregnancy
Fathers play a key role in contributing to healthier pregnancies. Providing support and encouragement to their partners is just one way dads become more involved.
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Laboring With Less Pain
If your model of birthing is normal and you understand even slightly what is going on in your body, you are on your way to having less pain in labor.
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Light Exercise and Pregnancy
Staying physically fit in pregnancy through light and consistent exercise is not only beneficial to the mother while pregnant but can also lead to an easier delivery.
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Recognize Early Labor Signs
Learn to recognize the early signs that labor and delivery may be pending.
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The Birth Partner: Labor Support
Many husbands, partners or labor support people wonder how to help a laboring woman cope with childbirth. Here is a guidebook for anyone.
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The Fourth Trimester of Pregnancy
The adjustment period after your infant baby has arrived is sometimes called the "fourth trimester." At six weeks postpartum, your body is going through many changes.
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What Does Natural Labor and Delivery Feel Like?
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.
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What is a Doula?
Pregnant women looking for support or assistance during pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood stages may seek the help of a doula.
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Labor & Delivery: My Personal Experience
I apologize for the delay in this article...my internet connection was down. This particular article is my own personal experience with a very difficult and complicated delivery.
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Your Labor & Delivery Glossary
Knowing the basic terminology can help an expectant mom ask better questions at her prenatal appointments, and even during labor and birth.
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You oughta be in pictures - photography for new dads
A brief discussion of a new father's duty as chief photographer/videographer/family chronicler. How to prepare for those precious moments you'll want to preserve for posterity.
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Choosing a Midwife
Many pregnant women go to a hospital for their prenatal care and delivery because of the education, quality care and equipment used, but don't overlook choosing a midwife
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Dangers of Smoking During Pregnancy
Smoking during pregnancy puts an unborn baby at a greater risk of potentially dangerous health problems. There are number of reasons why pregnant women should not smoke.
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Exercise During Pregnancy for Multiple Benefits
Exercise during pregnancy is one of the best things women can do for themselves and their unborn babies. An active lifestyle offers many benefits for mother and baby.
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Feline Pregnancy
Learn about how kittens are created, including how they develop in the womb.
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Methods to Induce Labor Naturally
At the end of your pregnancy, it may come time to consider naturally inducing labor. Walking, spicy food and more can help bring on labor.
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Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Every year nearly half a million children under the age of fifteen are infected with HIV. Of these, ninety percent result from mother-to child transmission.
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Natural Pain Relief for Labor
Opting out of an epidural or Pethadine doesn't mean you have no options when labor gets rough! Consider these safe, natural, drug-free options.
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Pregnancy and aerobics
Pregnant women should not be banned from exercising. This is the proof.
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Pregnancy and Labor Acupressure
Pregnancy acupressure makes it possible to induce labor naturally and ensure an easy labor and safe delivery. It can also be used to relieve pain, nausea and anxiety.
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Say No to Labor Inductions
Many mothers believe that being induced to avoid conflict with the holidays is preferred over going into labor on their own. Here are reasons to reconsider an induction.
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What to Expect When You Are Induced
Understanding common standards of practice for induction and pain relief during child birth can make delivery easier and less stressful.
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Creating A Birth Plan
Creating a birth plan is an excellent way to ensure your delivery goes as you want it to.
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Fetal Monitoring During Labor
Fetal Monitoring is one way to check to see how well your baby is doing during labor and birth. Types of monitoring can vary so find out more about your options.
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Midwives Model of Care
The midwifery philosophy treats pregnancy and childbirth as normal, natural events in a woman's life and addresses both her physical and emotional concerns.
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Preparing For Pregnancy: Doctor Or Midwife?
Now is the time to decide who will be your healthcare provider during pregnancy. You will want to visit with this person prior to pregnancy to determine if they will support the kind of pregnancy and birth experience you desire. Even if you choose a midwife, you need to have an OB in mind in case of complications that sometimes arise during pregnancy.
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Should You Use A Midwife?
The use of midwives in the delivery room is on the rise. New mothers now have more options available to them and using a midwife can be the key to avoiding unnecessary medical intervention.
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The Business of Being Born: Review
An eye-opening childbirth video that looks at birth options in America, and encourages women to question the move away from midwives, natural delivery and home birth.
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Top Reasons to Hire a Doula
Several reasons parents hire birth doulas today include a desire for more support during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
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Walking During Labor
Today many mothers have their movement restricted in labor due to fetal monitoring and medication use. Research shows that walking can shorten the first stage of labor.
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Stress and Pregnancy
The impact of stress upon pregnancy and practical stress reduction techniques.
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