What an amazing world that we live in - one in which medical teams can save both a mother and child by delivering a baby via cesarean section.

Epidurals are handed out like candy but never fully discussed in our society.  If over ¾ of vaginal deliveries are happening with an epidural, then it must be safe, right?

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. 

There is plenty of information out there about all things birth related, but yet there are still so many things that women are surprised by during their labors. You are not here for the ‘Big Picture;’ you want the gory details.

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.

It seems that most mothers you talk to had some kind of complication arise during their labor.  But birth is the most natural thing the body can do, so then why has it become so complicated?  Educate yourself about true complications and things that may actually be normal - then you will feel more confident in the delivery room.

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?

While baking your baby as long as possible is advised, if you are at 40 weeks and just plain done, there's no harm in trying to coax that baby out!

More than 1/3rd of unplanned c-sections that occur in the United States are due to women “Failing to Progress” during their labor.   This statistic is upsetting.  If mothers were properly educated on labor, birth, and their rights during the entire process, the statistic would be drastically lower. A failure to progress generally means a failure to wait, a failure to allow the woman’s body to work, and a failure to let a woman own her body.