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 ...

Completely natural means just that: a woman having a baby without the help of the many drugs and painkillers made possible by modern science. It's a reasonable choice to make, but the first step is to ...

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 ...

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, ...

Today is about the episode where I suddenly changed my birth location at 35 weeks pregnant!I think it's a rare case, so I'm ...

everyone else is wrong about. A few weeks after I had my first child, I ran into a woman from my prenatal yoga class who was still pregnant. She told me, sadly, that her baby was breech, and because ...

I have an announcement.I gave birth safely last month. Both mother and baby are healthy.It has been about a month since my ...

More than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a “more comfortable and happy event” is being slighted in the current craze for “natural childbirth,” says a team of four Baltimore ...

We are usually suspicious of pain-mongers. Think of the flinching reaction bringing up a "cutter" ensures. Sure, we are in awe of the guy who cut off his own arm to free himself from being trapped ...

During pregnancy, you’ll face many decisions, one of them being whether to use pain medication in childbirth. While it’s not right for everyone, choosing to go without medication during labor can have ...