I hated everything about how my birth experiences unfolded, hated every bottle, every moment of guilt and panic and all the ways I was lacking. But here we are, six years later, my girls and me.
I looked at the child I thought was Jacob. In a matter of hours he had gone from a baby with thin red hair to a baby with thick, long black hair. His seven pounds had morphed into at least ten. My Scot-Irish son had turned into an Italian. Wow, I thought, They change so fast!
Looking back, I'm glad I didn't write it off despite its rather bizarre-sounding name.
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.
Experts generally agree that most healthy, risk-free women should deliver their babies vaginally rather than by cesarean section, as it has benefits f...
Kourtney Kardashian is all about exploring alternative ... well, anything. With her due date rapidly approaching, she decided to start exploring alter...
My doctor suggested a number of medical interventions prior to and during my labor, including induction and continuous electronic fetal monitoring. Had they been necessary?
No wonder so many women these days are leery of natural childbirth -- or even vaginal birth -- not realizing how perfectly their bodies are designed for it. As are babies.
I think it's time to talk about more of the details, not less. At least here in our corner of the world, let's start sharing our versions of birth, feelings included.
Cesarean sections may not be best for preterm babies who are small for their gestational age, a new study found. It suggests than those infants have n...
Nice: Will new guidelines, giving women the choice to have a C-section over natural should they want one, present expectant mothers (particularly of f...
Ricki Lake may be best known for her for twirling to the top on "Dancing With The Stars," or for counseling her daytime guests for more than a decade....
All this 'birth performance art' is signaling that it is time to wake up and smell what is really going on when it comes to giving birth today.
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.
Bushwick's Microscope Gallery will bring an extraordinary real life performance piece opening this Saturday October 8, 2011. Bushwick-based artist Mar...
On a rainy June night, six couples strained to get a better view of a home video of a woman, legs spread, giving birth. The room was hushed -- the...
ATLANTA -- Home births rose 20 percent over four years, government figures show, reflecting what experts say is a small subculture among white women t...
In order to make the decision to have an old school birthing experience, you have to substitute fear for curiosity.
I recently chatted to Julie Rimmington, one of Italy's top therapists. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in radiotherapy and for the last 20 years has been dedicating herself to Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy -- with international certifications of the highest levels.
Like every parent on the planet, all I want is a healthy child (boring), and what I find strange about this experience is that I'm allowed -- and expected -- to make a decision regarding this desired outcome.
It took Danica McKellar a day and a half of natural labor to deliver her son Draco, but she barely recalls a moment of it. "If I had known it was g...
Consider the percentage of caesarian births in this country and how those statistics might change with an experienced doula by your side, giving you and your partner the support you deserve.
Like a midwife, Dr. Biter puts in endless hours to stay very present in a labor, however lengthy, and tailors the care to maximize a woman's innate ability to birth her baby without interventions.
