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Five Ways to Tell if You Have a Good OB/Gyn or Midwife

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Five Ways to Tell if You Have a Good OB/Gyn or Midwife

A good health care provider will take as much time as you need to talk over your questions and concerns before and after you’ve undressed.They sit down and talk to you about questions or concerns before you get undressed, talk you through an exam and make sure you have all of your questions … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Pregnancy (general), Labor and Delivery Tagged With: OB/Gyn, midwives, health care providers, Going to Hospital

What are Your Pain Relief Options for Labor?

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What are Your Pain Relief Options for Labor?

It’s no secret: contractions hurt. Real gripping discomfort is the main way you can tell labor contractions from the Braxton-Hicks kind. While there are actually no nerve endings inside the uterus there are a lot in your pelvis and around it. During a contraction the uterine muscles tighten and pull … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Pregnancy (general), Labor and Delivery, Featured

Had One Induction, Will I Need Another?

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Had One Induction, Will I Need Another?

This is my second pregnancy. with my first i was induced. Will that happen again or will I go into labor normally this time?” To know if you’re at risk for an induction again you need to find out why your first labor was induced. Make sure that your health care provider has a copy of your records … [Read more…]

Filed Under: 3rd Trimester, Labor and Delivery Tagged With: induction, labor induction, overdue, 3rd Trimester

Eight Ways Dads Can Help During Labor

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Eight Ways Dads Can Help During Labor

  Deal (calmly and firmly) with hospital staff and family. If you’ve hired a labor assistant she (or he) will take on the task of making sure hospital staff and family follow your partner’s wishes when it coms to visits and medical interventions. If not it’s up to you to be your partner’s … [Read more…]

Filed Under: Labor and Delivery, Featured, Parenting (general and dads)

Do You Need a Birth Plan? What Should You Include?

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Do You Need a Birth Plan? What Should You Include?

A birth plan is basically a list of what you do and don’t want during labor, birth, and after. Of course you don’t need to have one, beyond 1. show up at hospital or stay home and 2. have baby, and of course no one can never know in advance exactly how birth is going to go. And if you give birth at … [Read more…]

Filed Under: 3rd Trimester, Labor and Delivery, Featured

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