delivery
Oh Sh*t: Identifying When You Need Help in Pregnancy and Labor
Sex While Pregnant: Expectations and Realities
Birth Doulas: Reclaiming the Birth Experience
Pregnancy and Delivery: Super-Basic Edition
Pregnant & Posting: 39 weeks & Delivery
I worked right up until the day before I delivered my baby. In hindsight, I wish I'd had some time off beforehand. It would have made life easier and less stressful. However, we don't always have ideal situations.
I spent the last week of my pregnancy talking to baby a lot about making sure she waited until our scheduled date and time. Or, at the very least, if she was going to come early to try to do so during regular business hours on a day where my OB was working so that I didn't have to worry about being delivered by someone else.
Pregnant & Posting: 33-38 weeks
May I suggest that if it can be avoided, moving to a new home while in one's third trimester during the hottest summer on record and trying to work at the same time should be avoided if at all possible? Because it should.
Why Childbirth Ed is Sex Ed
Sex leads to pregnancy leads to childbirth.
This, of course, is a huge oversimplification.
Study Shows Steep Rise in Elective C-Sections
What's going on here?
While all the articles on this study seemed to avoid mentioning the issue of doctors persuading female patients to have cesarean deliveries, not to mention the yuckiness that the general practices and enviornment of hospital births tend to be, one has to scratch one's collective head.