Childbirth

Mother and Baby Born on Plane Given Free Flights for Life
AirAsia rewarded Liew Siaw Hsia, a woman who gave birth on a recent flight, free flights for life for her and her new baby.

Acupressure to Induce Labor
Acupressure to induce labor is an age-old practice in Asia, the history of which dates back 5000 years. But, recently it has been widely researched and discussed in Western countries, for its amazing effectiveness to strengthen labor and facilitate the entire process of childbirth. Know more about acupressure and acupressure points to induce labor.

Ways to Start Labor
The article briefly describes both the medical and natural ways to start labor. Read on for more information.

Impending Signs of Labor
During the last week or two of pregnancy, you must be waiting anxiously for any sign that indicates that labor has begin. But in fact, the signs of labor usually vary from woman to woman. Therefore, here are some most important impending signs of labor that will help you in determining whether you are truly in labor or not.

How to Start Labor
Desperate to hold your child in your arms rather than in your womb? Looking for how to start labor? This article gives you seven different methods to induce labor naturally.

Signs of Going into Labor
Every woman, once pregnant, has but one question she seeks an answer to, the question is "what are the signs of going into labor?".

Signs of Approaching Labor
There is no fixed time for labor to start. However, throughout pregnancy a woman undergoes a number of changes that are signs that her body is getting ready for childbirth. Here are the signs of approaching labor that a pregnant woman should know so that she is aware that she is soon going to go into delivery...

Inducing Labor at Home
Pregnant women who are faced with problems like overdue childbirth dates and other health complications after 37 weeks of pregnancy, are increasingly opting for natural ways for inducing labor at home. Read on to know more...

Early Signs of Labor
It is very important for expecting mothers to know the signs of labor. Here are some early signs of labor that would help pregnant women to be alert during their pregnancy...

Gender Selection Methods
Planning a family is not an easy task. The toughest aspect of it being, getting over your hopes for a girl or for a boy. But, good news is that there are ways which allow you to select the gender of your would-be bundle of joy. Let us see the various gender selection methods.

Pressure Points to Induce Labor
Use of pressure points to induce labor is one of the most effective and safest techniques for natural stimulation of labor. A gravida has certain spots in her body, which when pressed gently, stimulates labor. Maternity acupressure is well-known to ease and smoothen the process of child birth.

How to Induce Labor Naturally
Have you crossed your delivery due date or is the due date fast approaching? If your answer to any of the questions is yes, then you have reached the right place. There are methods to induce labor naturally. Here they are...

Natural Ways to Induce Labor at Home
Anxiety begins to pile up as your due date approaches. Sometimes, due date just comes and goes, but nothing happens. That is when most women resort to several labor inducing methods. However, of all the methods, natural labor inducing ways are the safest. Read on to know more about safe and natural ways to induce labor at home.

Inducing Labor: Acupressure to Induce Labor
Acupressure technique is one of the most extensively studied natural labor induction methods. The pressure points to induce labor are hoku spot, spleen 6, bladder 32 and BL60.

Wombs for Rent: Outsourcing Birth
Infertile couples are increasingly turning to surrogacy to accomplish their dreams of having a family, and India is happy to provide wombs for rent.

Leaking Amniotic Fluid
Read on know more about certain facts about leaking Amniotic Fluid – when it is alright for Amniotic Fluid to be leaking and when it is not…

Inducing Labor - Natural Ways to Induce Labor
What is the right time for natural labor induction? Read on to know more about the various natural ways to induce labor and the circumstances prohibiting a labor induction…

Natural Child Birth - Stages of Labor
Read on to know more about the various stages of labor during the process of natural child birth…

Managing Your Energy After Childbirth
Here are a few tips and recommendations on how to manage your energy levels in the weeks and months after childbirth.

What If I Have a C-Section?
How to Prepare - How to Decide - How to Recover Quickly. Thirty years ago, 1 in 20 babies was born by C-section. Today that number has swelled to more than 1 in 4. Whether you're considering an elective C-section, worrying about what you will face should you need surgery, or recovering in the days after your delivery, you'll find the facts in this unbiased, authoritative, reassuring guide.

Methods to Self Induce Labor Naturally
I was introduced to a Method to Self Induce Labor - completely natural. Without ANY type of equipment, like needles or anything of that nature. Mind you, it was because of my daughter that we even begun this discussion. But what I found out totally floored me.

Have a Natural Childbirth
Have a Natural Childbirth; no drugs, no medical intervention and be in control yourself. Enjoy the experience...

Learn Natural Child Birth Online With Birthright
Birthright Online Childbirth Education, new avenues to prepare for your baby's birth.

Labor Pain Management: The Myths and The Truth
It is told that labor pain is the most painful experience a woman can have in her lifetime. Efforts have been taken for centuries to alleviate this labor pain. But it has always been controversial in the past as in the present. Despite of all this negative propaganda 85% women prefers some kind of epidural analgesia during their labor.

After the Baby is Born
You will need to talk to your doctor about things your spouse will experience as her body starts to recover from the pregnancy.

Bringing on Labor and Natural Induction
Preconception information on family planning for getting pregnant, fertility issue, sexual position to have baby.

Hypnotherapy for Childbirth
How Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy can be used to alleviate the discomfort during childbirth.

Yes, We Do Need to Know
Women are being bullied into having caesarean sections, despite the risks to mother and child. By Annalisa Barbieri

Learning to manage your new life
When you’re a new mother, life can seem overwhelming. Your life is full of new responsibilities, yet the old ones haven’t gone...

Why Taking Care of Mommy is so important
It’s a novel concept, isn’t it; somebody taking care of you? Well, that somebody ultimately has to be you, and I know how it is, you’re way too busy taking care of everybody else to give yourself any ...

Kicked in the Ribs - While GIVING BIRTH
Depriving your kids of further education is not what caring parents do. Caring parents know what it takes to succeed.

GAGGED while giving Birth
Should women be gagged while giving Birth? Silence in the delivery room please. If you are uncomfortable with how others are treating you while pregnant. Talk to someone, check my information page for counseling or pregnancy tips

Emily Bell: Too Realistic to Push
The caesarean should be celebrated as a medical advance which has saved many lives - including mine, perhaps.

'Caesarean Refusal' Mother in Jail
A mother was in jail on charges of murder yesterday after refusing to undergo a caesarean delivery in a case that reignites America's debate on the competing rights of foetuses and women. In what was seen as a test of new state and federal legislation expanding the definition of human...