Before giving birth, you will triple check that everything is ready for your newborn. You will have everything from tiny socks to miniature mail clippers organized and ready. What will you have ready for yourself?

Science has found a way for C-section mothers to pass the good bacteria (typically found in a vaginal birth) to their baby.

Support is a major component of a healthy and happy pregnancy, labor, and birth.  Choosing the right birth team for you will lay the foundation for a confident journey. It sounds so easy, choosing a birth team, but the truth is that it may take some shopping around. 

Your birth plan is a culmination of your research; a brief proposal of what you would like, how things should be handled, and how you deserve to be treated.

You have an idea of what you would like for your birth experience.  Hopefully, you have prepared by taking more than a day class, as it will drastically increase the odds of you having the birth you want.  Education is truly the key.

You have about 40 weeks to mentally wrap your head around giving birth. You'll read and watch birth stories unfold, take birthing classes, and write out your plan to share with your birth team. You'll be as ready as you possibly can be, but what happens when those contraction waves start flowing? What happens when reality hits and you realize that you are actually going to birth a baby?