Labor And Birth

One of the latest ideas to help you get through labor is to take a self-hypnosis course aimed specifically at pregnant moms. Research Anecdotal evidence suggests that using self-hypnosis makes giving birth much easier and there are...

An early method of natural childbirth, the Bradley Method was developed by Dr. Robert A. Bradley (1917-1998). Some people know this method by the term "husband-coached childbirth." Bradley set forth his ideas in a...

You're familiar with the term "Apgar" and you know that doctors use this method to assess a baby's condition just after birth, but just how it works is kind of a blur. In short, your baby is...

Back in the early part of the 1950's a French obstetrician named Ferdinand Lamaze employed Pavlovian theory to develop a method of pain management. Dr. Lamaze believed that laboring women are affected by their...

Often, just before delivery, an episiotomy is performed. This procedure involves an incision in the perineum, which is located between the vagina and the anus. The cut enlarges the opening of the vagina to help...

Among the various medical means of relieving the pain of labor and childbirth, epidural anesthesia is by far the most popular. Half of all women who have their babies in the hospital are using this form...

Pregnancy can seem to stretch in an endless manner while the mother-to-be both yearns for and fears her labor and delivery. She can't wait to see the life taking form beneath her skin, but it...