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1 Tasty Treats For Labor and Delivery Staff
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2 Did You Buy Your Labor and Delivery Nurse a Present?
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3 What Are Common Signs of Labor?
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4 Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me: Stripping the Membranes
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5 babysugar Diaries: Playlist for the Delivery Room
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6 Tell Mommy: Did You Try to Speed Up Labor at Home?
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7 Mommy Dearest: Do Full Moons Bring on Labor?
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8 Birth Stories: Long Labor, Short Delivery
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9 Bringing Out Baby: Test Your Induction Knowledge
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10 Laboring Women Can Get Their Drink On
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11 How Long Were You Dilated Before You Delivered?
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12 Did You Wax Your Way Into Labor?
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13 Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me: Itchy Epidural
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14 Five Things Not to Say to a Woman in Labor
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15 Tell Mommy: Who Was in Your Labor Room During Delivery?
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16 Bedtime Story: My Mom Delivered a Baby on a Plane
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17 Would You Want Your Parents to Deliver Your Baby?
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18 Lil Community: Epidural or Natural?
Motherhood can be a mind-boggler! Go2Girl submitted this question in our The Mommy Club group. I am trying to help my sister with some options for late night coverage for her 4-year-old twins. She is due in March, and already stressing about the possibility of going into labor late at night and not having adequate coverage for her children. Unfortunately, her immediate family does not live close Read more
Having had two c-sections, with nary a contraction to be felt, I always envied women who experienced movie-like water-breaking scenes, where out of the blue, their water breaks and it is a mad dash to the hospital. Over the weekend, a friend had just that. One month away from her due date with her third child (the first two were both over a week late), my friend thought she was safe to head to Read more
Humans live right side up, but most babies are born upside down. Once a woman is late into her pregnancy, a doctor or midwife usually monitors the baby's position. Some medical professionals encourage the expectant mom to schedule a c-section if the tot doesn't turn, but one in 25 babies is born in a breech position There are three types of breech babies: Frank breech: The fetus' buttocks Read more
Pack the bag — it's time to have baby . . . or not. When a first-time mom-to-be hears she's dilated, she may want to head straight to the hospital, but it can be days or even weeks before the cervix is ready for a wee one to pass through. An expectant mother has to be 100 percent effaced and dilated 10 centimeters for baby to debut (via vaginal delivery). Were you dilated for a while? Read more
At a certain point in pregnancy, a mom-to-be is more than ready to meet her little one. Some women walk until their legs tire hoping to stir up their babe, and others take a Castor oil concoction to get things moving. Whether it's eating prego pizza or having sex, many ladies take a chance on these methods to try to induce labor. Which did you do? Baby It's Time! How Did You Try to Read more
Pregnancy is a journey filled with growth and learning. LilSugar reader Beaner has been bringing our readers along on her journey and is asking the Community for their thoughts on delivery in The Pregnancy Posse group. In my Prenatal Yoga class last week, one woman said that she's camping out a week before her due date so she can get the epidural as soon as she has her first contraction. I know Read more
Many mamas-to-be aren't playing the waiting game as they anticipate the arrival of their lil ones. According to new research, labor inductions nearly doubled between 1992 and 2003, bringing more babies into the world before a pregnancy reaches 40 weeks. Labor induction isn't always on an expectant mama's birth plan, so take this quiz to see just how much you know about the process. Take the Quiz Read more
Though May Day doesn't mean much in the United States, across most of the world, it's a labor-centric holiday with demonstrations by unions and other workers' groups. In honor of this first day of May, I decided to do a little research about some of history's great ladies of the labor movement. Test your muscle by taking my quiz. Source: Flickr User Mariana Mansur Take the Quiz Read more
Thanks to modern technology, most moms have a support group once they head to the hospital to labor and deliver. Whether it's via text message, instant messenger, email, a phone tree, or social networking updates — friends and family are kept up to date on all the details from the water breaking and the epidural being administered to the announcement of the actual birth. Once a woman has Read more
This post was submitted by princessya in the Birth Stories group. I had gone into pre-term contractions at 33 weeks, but was able to stop the progression of the pre-term labor for 6 weeks. Suffering, the mild contractions every couple minutes to half hour, I had a pre-natal checkup on June 9 (week 39) at around 1:30 p.m. and was then scheduled to return two days later for a Non-Stress Test to Read more
