#4 Everything You Need to Know About C-Sections
When planning labor and delivery, a traditional vaginal birth is what most mothers aspire to have. However, you can’t always have the easiest labor without any ...
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#9 Why is Rh Factor Important in Pregnancy?
During your pregnancy, early on in you will have a test to see if you are Rh negative. But what is the Rh factor and why does it play such a big role in pregnan...
#8 What To Expect While Carrying Twins and Multiples
Carrying twins means double the fun for the parents to be. But what exactly are your chances of having twins? Over the past few years, the birth of twins has si...
#7 Can I Have Vaginal Delivery After Cesarean Section? (VBAC)
When I was in medical school 45 years ago, the mantra when it came to the management of pregnant women who underwent one or more C-sections was “Once a C-sectio...
# 6 What You Need to Know About Gestational Diabetes
Diabetes that occurs during pregnancy is called gestational diabetes. Like any diabetes, your body cannot effectively get your blood sugar into your cells to us...
# 3 What Is Eclampsia
Preeclampsia is a common pregnancy complication. If not addressed, it can be a huge risk to you and your baby. Preeclampsia has the potential to restrict fetus ...
Are You Really Safe, or Just Feeling Safe?
In Cynthia Gabriel’s book, Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds, she devoted a whole chapter to feeling safe in pregnancy and delivery. As a doula, h...
Delay and Denial Cause Maternal Deaths
Each year an estimated 1200 women in the U.S. suffer complications during pregnancy or childbirth that prove fatal and 60,000 suffer consequences that are near-...
#1 Some Maternal Mortality Solutions
Few times in our lives do we encounter better outcomes than we anticipate. I have been very fortunate in that when I was called upon to teach, I found I liked i...