Five Essential Questions to Navigate Procedures & Interventions
Overview You will have many opportunities to opt in or out of interventions in your pregnancy, birth,…
Overview You will have many opportunities to opt in or out of interventions in your pregnancy, birth,…
Overview When you have made it through most of your pregnancy and are in the final stretch,…
Overview How you experience labor and birth will be unique for you. While each labor is different,…
Overview Hydrotherapy is a broad term that encompasses many different treatments around the physical properties of water…
Overview Unmedicated birth comes with many benefits but also has its challenges. If you plan to avoid…
Overview The simplest explanation of how we feel pain is that our bodies sense pain when nerves…
Overview You have several pain management options for labor and birth. The availability of specific methods may…
Overview Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, was first used as a labor analgesic in 1881….
Overview In this episode, we are talking about epidurals. There are three separate procedures that can be…
Overview A birth center is a middle ground between home birth and a hospital. You get the…
Overview About 98% of all births in the United States are in hospitals. Even if you plan…
Overview No matter what type of birth you have, the most important thing after your baby is…
Overview There are a lot of rumors about things you can do or food to eat to…
Overview In a perfect world everything works like it is supposed to, your body is ready, your…
Overview During your labor and birth, your doctor or midwife will be monitoring your baby’s heart rate…
Overview You have a vision of what you imagine your labor going like. There is always the…
Overview You spend nine months preparing for your labor and birth, and suddenly it is here, and…
Overview In the last month of your pregnancy, you will be seeing your doctor or midwife weekly….
Overview Picture the moment your baby is born. The umbilical cord is still connected on one end…
Overview Your baby’s umbilical cord is their lifeline. The reason for this, is that it is constantly…
Overview Breathing is something we are constantly doing and seldom paying much attention to. When you are…
Overview A cesarean section can be a lifesaving procedure for a mom or a baby. In a…
Overview Nearly one-third of babies in the U.S. are born via cesarean section, which is the most…
Overview A nuchal cord happens when the umbilical cord is wrapped 360 degrees around a baby’s neck….