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Birthing Classes: Get Schooled on Your Options
Women have been giving birth since the beginning of humanity. Nothing could be more natural, so the birth process should be completely intuitive for [...]
What is Mindful Birthing?
Walking outside on a warm spring day, my insides constricted and pain radiated across my lower back. I closed my eyes and focused on [...]
10 Things Your Friends Haven’t Told You About Childbirth
If this is your first pregnancy rodeo, you’ve probably already discovered a few of the undisclosed aspects of growing a baby. After all, few [...]
What Happens to Baby’s Umbilical Cord After Birth
You’ve been dreaming about this moment for the past nine months or longer—your little one is finally here! But after the hard work of delivery [...]
Center Stage: The Birth of Romy
"Once the CDC started quickly releasing guidelines for social distancing and additional safety for higher-risk groups, including pregnant women, I became a prisoner of my tiny midtown apartment with two extroverted small children and a full-time job."
Third Time’s the Charmer: The Birth Story of Theo
Third babies, third births, rather, are often called wild cards in that they are anything but predictable. (As if birth is ever a one-size-fits-all event.) [...]
A banker’s dozen
1| What is cord blood, anyway? Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord after birth. It’s rich in stem cells [...]
Set the mood
Early on in my pregnancy, my thoughts about birth were strictly limited to the physicality of how to get a baby out of my [...]
Convictions: The birth of Navy
As an editor at P&N, it was widely assumed I had a firm grip on what I wanted for my second pregnancy. After all, editing [...]
5 things to glean from an expert doula
Lindsey Bliss is a DONA-certified doula, co-director of Carriage House Birth in New York and Los Angeles, and mom to seven children (including two [...]
9 reasons to take a birth class
When you’ve got a new family member joining your crew, time is precious—so you can clock some quality time with your partner, tackle that home [...]
Seeing it all: The birth of Carlos
I am the mother of a beautiful 6-month-old baby boy! I would say that my baby is the most handsome and perfect, but in [...]
Two weeks later: The birth of Stevie
It has been about two weeks since Steven’s birth and I finally thought I should take some time and write my experience of what it [...]
School of Labor Pain
They don’t call it “labor” for nothing! The moments leading up to bringing baby earthside require hard, painful work. Labor is tricky to predict [...]
Big break: The birth of Elliott
It’s not like the movies—no one ever goes into labor by having their water break spontaneously. That’s what we were told in our birth class. [...]
Home sweet home: The birth of William
William’s birth story really began three years ago when I started reading Grantly Dick-Read’s Childbirth Without Fear. The main idea of the book is that [...]
Welcome home: The birth of Lexi
I told my midwives I planned to have a hospital birth. It never occurred to me that a home birth was an option for me [...]
Sudden rush: The birth of Faye
Faye, oh, Faye, you are the sweetest little girl. All 10 pounds, 3 ounces of you—wow, you are quite the baby! You sure threw me [...]
Birthing Classes: Get Schooled on Your Options
Women have been giving birth since the beginning of humanity. Nothing could be more natural, so the birth process should be completely intuitive for [...]
What is Mindful Birthing?
Walking outside on a warm spring day, my insides constricted and pain radiated across my lower back. I closed my eyes and focused on [...]
10 Things Your Friends Haven’t Told You About Childbirth
If this is your first pregnancy rodeo, you’ve probably already discovered a few of the undisclosed aspects of growing a baby. After all, few [...]
What Happens to Baby’s Umbilical Cord After Birth
You’ve been dreaming about this moment for the past nine months or longer—your little one is finally here! But after the hard work of delivery [...]
Center Stage: The Birth of Romy
"Once the CDC started quickly releasing guidelines for social distancing and additional safety for higher-risk groups, including pregnant women, I became a prisoner of my tiny midtown apartment with two extroverted small children and a full-time job."
Third Time’s the Charmer: The Birth Story of Theo
Third babies, third births, rather, are often called wild cards in that they are anything but predictable. (As if birth is ever a one-size-fits-all event.) [...]
A banker’s dozen
1| What is cord blood, anyway? Cord blood is the blood that remains in the umbilical cord after birth. It’s rich in stem cells [...]
Set the mood
Early on in my pregnancy, my thoughts about birth were strictly limited to the physicality of how to get a baby out of my [...]
Convictions: The birth of Navy
As an editor at P&N, it was widely assumed I had a firm grip on what I wanted for my second pregnancy. After all, editing [...]
5 things to glean from an expert doula
Lindsey Bliss is a DONA-certified doula, co-director of Carriage House Birth in New York and Los Angeles, and mom to seven children (including two [...]
9 reasons to take a birth class
When you’ve got a new family member joining your crew, time is precious—so you can clock some quality time with your partner, tackle that home [...]
Seeing it all: The birth of Carlos
I am the mother of a beautiful 6-month-old baby boy! I would say that my baby is the most handsome and perfect, but in [...]
Two weeks later: The birth of Stevie
It has been about two weeks since Steven’s birth and I finally thought I should take some time and write my experience of what it [...]
School of Labor Pain
They don’t call it “labor” for nothing! The moments leading up to bringing baby earthside require hard, painful work. Labor is tricky to predict [...]
Big break: The birth of Elliott
It’s not like the movies—no one ever goes into labor by having their water break spontaneously. That’s what we were told in our birth class. [...]
Home sweet home: The birth of William
William’s birth story really began three years ago when I started reading Grantly Dick-Read’s Childbirth Without Fear. The main idea of the book is that [...]
Welcome home: The birth of Lexi
I told my midwives I planned to have a hospital birth. It never occurred to me that a home birth was an option for me [...]
Sudden rush: The birth of Faye
Faye, oh, Faye, you are the sweetest little girl. All 10 pounds, 3 ounces of you—wow, you are quite the baby! You sure threw me [...]
