If you’re within the last few months of your pregnancy, you might be in the process of creating your birth plan. A birth plan is a list of your wishes for the childbirth experience that can include ...

Every person’s experience with birth will be different. Pain is subjective and can vary greatly. This means that you may have a very different pain experience from even your mother or sister. Share on ...

That said, unless things are cut short by a C-section, all women go through three precise stages of labor and childbirth: labor itself (which includes early labor, active labor and transitional labor) ...

Epidurals, spinal anesthesia, and analgesics work well against labor pains. However, they do have some side effects including nausea and vomiting as well as increasing the chance that some assisted ...

It’s one of the big questions for birth plans: “Do you want an epidural?” But there are plenty of other ways to make those contractions more bearable. We asked two experts—Ann Schaeffer, D.N.P., C.N.M ...

Cramping during pregnancy might concern you, but it's common during all stages of pregnancy and only requires medical aid in ...

Picture a roomful of men kneeling next to their supine and pregnant wives, blowing whistles in their wives faces, barking at them to breathe, even calling them maggot. We were coaches now, after all, ...

The women leaning back in large loungechairs are enclosed from the chest down by a plastic balloon. To the casual observer, they look like a cross between customers at a beauty parlor and weight ...

Braxton Hicks contractions, or false labor, happen as a natural part of pregnancy. Here's how to identify them and tell them ...

ON A COLD DECEMBER NIGHT in 2022, Autumn Walsh, a Gualala resident and expectant mother, and her husband decided to take Meyers Grade — a rural road in northern Sonoma County that leads to California ...