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Giving Birth

Catherine Pearson

Is This Common Labor Drug Unsafe?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.07.2013 | Parents

A preliminary new study of the drug Pitocin, frequently given to women to help start or speed up childbirth, has raised concerns about its safety. ...

Pregnant Woman Gives Birth In Hotel Bathroom After London Hospital Turned Her Away

Evening Standard, London | Mark Blunden | Posted 04.05.2013 | World

A COUPLE told today how their first child was born in a London hotel bathroom after they were turned away from a leading hospital. George Reggie Eade...

How I Became The Mom Who Gave Birth In A Parking Lot

Lea Lion | Posted 04.03.2013 | Parents
Lea Lion

I held onto the wall and the banister as I slowly made my way down the stairs. I held onto my very worried-looking mother as I walked out of the front door. Then I held onto the porch railing as another contraction rocked through me. My only thought was: Must get to car.

A Non-Traditional Birth Plan

Kim Simon | Posted 03.18.2013 | Parents
Kim Simon

It's easy to be calm when you're pregnant with Baby #1. You don't know what you don't know, and all. But we all know how well that turned out.

Suspected 'Maternity Hotel' Uncovered In California

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.03.2012 | Small Business

A residence in Chino Hills, Calif., is suspected of operating as a maternity hotel, where expectant Chinese mothers can allegedly pay thousands of dol...

7 Questions For Soon-To-Be Mothers -– A Guide To Choosing The Best Hospital For You

Leah Binder | Posted 01.08.2013 | Parents
Leah Binder

Today's hospitals offer "family birthing suites" with soothing wallpaper, aromatherapy, soft lighting, comfy tubs, pull-out beds for Dad and catered meals. While all this makes for good advertising, it does not necessarily make for good birthing.

10 Years Ago: A Lifetime and an Instant

Lindsey Mead | Posted 12.25.2012 | Parents
Lindsey Mead

My daughter turns 10 this week. I'm swimming in a sea of memories of this week ten whole years ago, a week that commenced a season that changed everything for me.

WATCH: Homeless Man Saves Newborn Baby's Life At Oklahoma Truck Stop

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 10.17.2012 | Good News

Keaton Mason was giving birth in an unlikely situation: the passenger seat of a white Honda, in a truck stop just off I-40 in Oklahoma City. Mason ...

5 Tips For Giving Birth You Weren't Expecting

Faith Salie | Posted 12.09.2012 | Parents
Faith Salie

My son is almost four months old, and while I still haven't mastered how not to get peed on while changing his diaper, I do feel like I have some worthwhile tips for giving birth.

A Tale of Two Babies

Sheila Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN | Posted 12.04.2012 | Impact
Sheila Davis, DNP, ANP-BC, FAAN

Fortunately, I get to see Bowie all the time. She is a healthy, beautiful little girl I can hold in my arms for hours. As I look at her, my thoughts are constantly with Dalitso, across the ocean. I hope she and her mother are healthy.

The Birth Story I Never Wanted To Tell

Christina Loccke | Posted 11.13.2012 | Parents
Christina Loccke

My husband jokingly applies the baseball term "hitting for the cycle" to the way I delivered our three children: from scheduled surgery to drugged and finally undrugged natural. It wasn't some sport, though I was fanatical.

Catherine Pearson

How Natural Birth May Boost Baby's Brain Power

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 08.12.2012 | Parents

Experts generally agree that most healthy, risk-free women should deliver their babies vaginally rather than by cesarean section, as it has benefits f...

Global Motherhood: Beyond survival -- Could Access to Maternal Care Transform a Woman's Life?

Yasmina Zaidman | Posted 09.18.2012 | Impact
Yasmina Zaidman

In the developing world, the option for poor women to have medical assistance of any kind is often absent and this leads to the death of 800 women each day from pregnancy and childbirth.

Catherine Pearson

Why Do Moms Take Longer To Give Birth Today?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 04.03.2012 | Parents

Convinced that you spent a lot more time in labor with your baby than your mom did with you? You may have. According to new research from the Na...

How Music And Storytelling Reduced Infant Deaths By 54 Percent In One Indian Town

Gitika Ahuja | Posted 05.21.2012 | Impact
Gitika Ahuja

How did these traditions develop, and how could this community's thinking be shifted? Women were in deep pain from this incredible level of loss, and they were ready to be heard.

Can I Borrow a Hug?

Pat Gallagher | Posted 04.10.2012 | Comedy
Pat Gallagher

I'm a hypochondriac. Is there a support group out there anywhere for people like me? Or am I in this alone, wallowing in my misery? I really, really l...

One, Two, Three

Glennon Melton | Posted 04.04.2012 | Parents
Glennon Melton

The earth shakes when the doctor places your firstborn in your arms. Holding your second, you become human again. Then the third arrives. And as you hold her for the first time, you notice that your hands are steady.

For Healthier Moms and Babies, X-Out Repeat C-Sections

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 03.24.2012 | Los Angeles
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Preliminary figures from the Centers for Disease control include a promising bit of news for women's health: for the first time in a decade, the rate of cesarean section births dropped.

Mother Goes Deaf After Giving Birth

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 11.20.2011 | Healthy Living

What was supposed to be a joyous day for Heather Simonsen turned terrifying when, according to a report from Utah's KSL, she lost her sense of hearing...

Too Posh To Push? C-sections On Demand

AP | By MARIA CHENG | Posted 01.09.2012 | Parents

LONDON -- Pregnant women in Britain, where the government provides free health care, may soon be able to get a cesarean section on demand thanks to a ...

Setting Up Realistic Expectations of Birth -- Changes We Can All Make

Brandy Ferner | Posted 12.24.2011 | Parents
Brandy Ferner

Our culture sends the message that birth is no big thang. It's pretty ordinary, happens everyday, is nothing more than a baby coming out of a hole.

Cristina Costantini

Undocumented Women Forced To Give Birth While Shackled And In Police Custody

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 12.21.2011 | Latino Voices

"When I was in bed, I was begging the sheriff, 'Please let me free -- at least one hand,' and he said, no, he didn't want to," Juana Villegas said in ...

Birth Rights: Helping Expectant Mothers Survive In Indonesia

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Robin Lim wanted to reinvent herself. After suffering the loss of both her sister and her best friend in the same year, she and her husband moved to...

How to Give Birth Like a Celebrity

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Charlotte Hilton Andersen

2011-02-01-pregnant.png Baby bumps are the new must-have accessory, so try birthing like your favorite star!

Do Orgasmic Births Really Happen?

Juliet Linley | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Juliet Linley

The more disconnected we are from our bodies, our sexuality and our sensuality, the more perverse we might label the whole idea of pleasure in birth.