From the day I heard my due date I had a feeling I was going to go beyond it. I don't know why, but [...]

My first real contraction came at 1 a.m. At least the first one that I felt. I woke up to that deep almost period-like pain [...]

I prayed every night of this pregnancy while putting my sweet son, Buddy, to bed. After voicing lots of hopeful feelings—for comfort and rest [...]

Working up to my delivery date, I asked as many women as I could about their labor and birth experiences. I wanted to be [...]

My husband and were actually a little stressed about when our son would arrive. We have a 4-year-old daughter, and we don't live near [...]

While waiting to pick up my prescription glasses, I felt a hint of a backache—my first during the entire pregnancy. At that point I [...]

It was our first wedding anniversary, and we had planned to stay at the Westin in Seattle. It was about a 90-minute drive from [...]

It was Wednesday, July 9. Carter’s due date was July 6, so I was already three days overdue. I'd had four acupuncture appointments to try and [...]

I will never forget the way my heart skipped beats when I first saw that positive pregnancy test. My husband and I found out we [...]

I knew I would never make it to 40 weeks because I was pregnant with twins. I made 38 weeks my goal, knowing it would [...]

On September 11, I finished up my work and logged off around 5 p.m. I was working from home and planned to work right up [...]

My first labor and delivery went pretty much textbook, and I was proud of myself for being able to achieve my goal of doing it [...]

Neeson Foley, I am your mama, and this is your birth story. I’ve started writing it a million different times and in a million [...]

Delima is a Portuguese last name, but the literal Filipino/Tagalog translation of Delima is “of five” (de = of; lima = five). Our family was blessed with [...]

I thought my eight-year wedding anniversary present was supposed to be pottery, bronze, linens or lace. My husband Jordan and I usually took the [...]

Isabel was born on Black Friday, just five days before my due date! (My firstborn, Daniel, was eight days early.) I had tons of belly ligamentous [...]

As I reached the 36th week, we all had much anticipation that our daughter’s birth could be approaching any day. Because our son was born prematurely, [...]