During your pregnancy, your body prepares itself for a certain predictable amount of blood loss that will be experienced during the delivery. The average woman loses a pint of blood during the delivery, or two...

You've been through the long months of pregnancy during which you felt both excited and worried. You made it through the labor and delivery and you now have a beautiful new baby. What now? What...

About a third of women today in the United States give birth by caesarean section. While these are often done in an emergency, more and more women plan, in conjunction with their doctor, to have caesareans. C-Sections...

Traditionally women helped other women give birth. In the days when most babies in America were born at home, a trained midwife, or even an experienced laywoman helped a woman give birth, and men were...

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...