Optimal Labor Positions for a Shorter and Easier Birth
Overview For most of human history, a mother in labor was free to move around and change…
Your Options for the Third Stage of Labor
Overview The third stage of labor starts after your baby is born and ends with birthing the…
Placenta Encapsulation: The Evidence on the Risks and Benefits
Overview The thought of eating your placenta might gross you out at first, but once you hear…
Pain Management Options for Labor
Overview Your body must go through a lot of work to birth a baby. During labor, nerves…
Birth Interventions Overview
Overview An intervention is any action taken to alter the course of your labor or birth. Modern…
Five Essential Questions to Navigate Procedures & Interventions
Overview You will have many opportunities to opt in or out of interventions in your pregnancy, birth,…
Birth Tools and Techniques
Overview A lot of things need to come together for you to have the birth experience you…
Using a Rebozo for Pregnancy and Birth
Overview A rebozo is a long rectangular shawl that originated in Mexico. Like many non-western traditions, the…
Hydrotherapy and the Benefits of Water During Labor (Baths, Showers, and Waterbirth)
Overview Hydrotherapy is a broad term that encompasses many different treatments around the physical properties of water…
Unmedicated Birth
Overview Unmedicated birth comes with many benefits but also has its challenges. If you plan to avoid…
Other Pain Management Options During Labor
Overview You have several pain management options for labor and birth. The availability of specific methods may…
Nitrous Oxide During Labor
Overview Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, was first used as a labor analgesic in 1881….
Epidural
Overview In this episode, we are talking about epidurals. There are three separate procedures that can be…
Your Birth Room and Tips to Improve It
Overview Ideally, during your birth, nothing is inhibiting your oxytocin production and the fewer stress hormones that…
Inducing Labor Naturally
Overview There are a lot of rumors about things you can do or food to eat to…
Inducing Labor
Overview In a perfect world everything works like it is supposed to, your body is ready, your…
The Evidence on Eating and Drinking During Labor
Overview For a long time, it has been a common rule in hospitals that you could not…
Electronic Fetal Monitoring
Overview During your labor and birth, your doctor or midwife will be monitoring your baby’s heart rate…
The Evidence on Vaginal Exams Before and During Labor
Overview In the last month of your pregnancy, you will be seeing your doctor or midwife weekly….
Timing of Skin-to-Skin Contact & Delayed Cord Clamping
Overview Picture the moment your baby is born. The umbilical cord is still connected on one end…
Cord Blood Banking
Overview TCord blood banking is definitely a confusing topic and this episode summarizes the information you need…
Delayed Cord Clamping
Overview Your baby’s umbilical cord is their lifeline. The reason for this, is that it is constantly…
Breathing During Labor
Overview Breathing is something we are constantly doing and seldom paying much attention to. When you are…
Lotus Birth
Overview Generally, if you delay cord clamping, you would clamp and cut the umbilical cord after a…
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