I have experienced both a natural birth and a planned C-section.I didn't get the impression that many people around me had ...
I don’t often think about giving birth to my son anymore. Now that he’s almost two it’s hard to even remember what it was like to be pregnant. But I recently came across a blog post from a women’s ...
There is something HypnoBirthing can do for any birth methodIn the previous article ⑤ we talked about self-hypnosis used ...
Have you heard of a "natural birth"? The term is being explored in an Instagram video by LOOM, a sexual and reproductive health educational platform co-founded by retired doula Erica Chidi. She says ...
I've given birth twice. With my first, I couldn't ask for the epidural fast enough, but with my second I did it completely drug-free. I clearly haven't experienced every different birthing scenario ...
A doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a mother before, during, and shortly after childbirth. Unlike midwives or obstetricians, ...
Natural childbirth, also known as un-medicated birth, has many hidden benefits that more women of childbearing age should be aware of. In our society, giving pain medication for labor is so normal ...
A birth educator has sparked an important (and overdue) conversation on TikTok after she shared a clip revealing what really counts as a 'natural birth'. Posting a video for her 131.3k followers, ...
Pregnant women worry. They worry whether the baby is healthy; they worry if they’re eating right and avoiding everything that could possibly be harmful to the new life growing within. They also worry ...
Birthing centers, which offer natural, low-intervention births to low-risk moms, are becoming more and more popular. But regardless of demand, they’re struggling to stay open. When Kimberly Kleoppel ...