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Labor and Delivery

Choosing how to deliver your baby, and knowing about all of the possibilities should things work out differently than you hoped, can help you approach your baby's birthday with more confidence.

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What Happens If Your OB Isn't There To Deliver Your Baby
What to Pack for a Hospital Delivery - Illustration by Theresa Chiechi
What to Pack for a Hospital Delivery
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My Birth Plan Didn't Go As Planned—And That's Perfectly OK
Jessica Florio month 8 of pregnancy
Having a Doula Was Important to Me as a Black Pregnant Woman
Tired mother and baby
How to Recover After a Traumatic Birth
How to induce labor
What Really Works to Induce Labor
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Can I Take Robitussin While Breastfeeding?
Three mothers
Perspectives: 10 Moms on What It Feels Like to Have Mom Brain
Best Online HypnoBirthing Classes
Best Online Hypnobirthing Classes of 2022
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Can I Take Midol While Breastfeeding?
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Can I Take Pepto Bismol While Breastfeeding?
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Stretch Marks After Having A Baby Are Nothing to Be Ashamed Of
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How to Prepare for Your First Day Home With Your New Baby
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How to Take Care of a C-Section Scar
Mother nursing her infant
我可以服用抗生素而Breastfeedi吗ng?
Woman in delivery room
What Is a VBAC?
Nurse comforting mother and newborn in hospital
The Honest Truth: What Is It Really Like to Give Birth?
NICU baby
What to Know About Dolichocephaly
Woman in labor in hospital bed.
What Is Latent Phase Labor?
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Using Cervidil For Labor Induction
Woman in labor
What to Know About Uterine Tachysystole
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What to Expect at the Hospital After Giving Birth
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Umbilical Cords: What You Need to Know
African American doctor taking pregnant woman's blood pressure
What Is an Obstetrician?
Woman experiencing contraction pain
What Are Contractions?
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How to Use Mindful Childbirth and Parenting
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Cephalopelvic Disproportion: Can a baby get stuck during childbirth?
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Does Cervical Effacement Mean Labor Has Started?
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When an Episiotomy Is Recommended and When It's Not
Birthing centre
What to Know About the Bradley Method of Childbirth
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How Lamaze Today Is Different from the Lamaze of the Past
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Why an Induction May Be Necessary Before Labor
What Is Lotus Birth?
Baby having his diaper changed
照顾你自己和你的新生儿产后
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Did Your Water Just Break? How to Tell and What to Do Next
Driving to the hospital while in labor
The Options Parents Have When Being Sent Home After a False Labor
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Visualization Techniques for Labor and Birth
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In-Hospital Procedures for Newborns in the First Hours After Birth
Pensive pregnant woman holding stomach in examination room
How You Can Help When Your Baby Is Breech in Pregnancy
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6 Can't-Miss Signs of Preterm Labor
A pregnant woman experiencing braxton hicks contractions.
How to Tell if Your Contractions Are the Real Thing
Illustration of cervical dilation in the first stage of labor
Dilation of the Cervix Is Measured When Going Into Labor
Labor in hospital
5 Reasons You May Want to Avoid Inducing Labor (Even if You're Overdue)
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What to Know About the Placenta
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Why Women Should Be Careful When Removing Pubic Hair for Labor
Doctor examining pregnant woman
How Dilated Should You Be to Go to the Hospital?
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Various Techniques That Can Turn Your Baby
Woman having labor pains
Coping Tips for Each Stage of Labor
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Methods for Speeding Up Labor
Just delivered baby on their mother's chest in a hospital
Asking Your Birth Center How Many People Can Be in a Delivery Room
Couple at the hospital in labor
Why Mothers Might Need Antibiotics in Labor to Fight Off Infection
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Why Labor Is Sometimes Augmented After It Has Stalled
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5 Things to Ask Your Doctor Before an Induction of Labor
Mucus Plug
What Is the Mucus Plug?
Young woman enduring labor pains in hospital.
Why Some Women Choose to Have Unmedicated or Natural Births
Expectant parents. The woman is in the early stages of labour.
Try These Different Positions With a Partner During Labor
Birthing centre
7 Things to Consider for Your Birth Plan
Anatomical model of pregnancy
The Role of the Cervical Os in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Newborn in the hospital with mom
Benefits of Rooming In With Your Baby After Birth
Man assisting childbirth in hospital
Don't Worry About Pooping in Labor

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