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Pregnancy
1 Did You Engage in Any of These Risky Pregnancy Procedures?
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2 Do You Know Your Labor and Delivery Equipment?
Pregnancy
3 Vaginal Birth Is Full of Postpartum Surprises!
Pregnancy
4 Not Your Mama's Childbirth Classes
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5 Labor and Delivery Traditions From Around the World
Pregnancy
6 Bite of Pregnancy Pie: Do You Believe in Labor-Inducing Pizza?
Health and Fitness
7 Jessica Alba's Baby Haven Was Born in the Caul; See What That Means
Celebrity Pregnancies
8 Alicia Silverstone Embraced an Orgasmic Birth; Would You?
Pregnancy
9 What's the Holdup, Baby? Why Labor Takes Longer Today Than It Did 50 Years Ago
Celebrity Pregnancies
10 Selma Blair Was Weeks Past Her Due Date, Were You?
Baby Bump
11 Having the Birth Experience You Want, Even If It Means a C-Section
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12 Hospital Bans Photography Until Baby Is Five Minutes Old
Pregnancy
13 Could Your New Baby Come With a Million Dollar Price Tag?
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14 Jessica Alba Attends Childbirth Class With Jimmy Kimmel and Hilarity Ensues
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15 This Labor Day, Share Your Birth Story From the Very First Contraction!
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16 Lil Community: My Miracle, A Birth Story
Music
17 Push to the Beat: Creating the Ultimate Labor and Delivery Playlist
Why Didn't Anybody Tell Me
18 What Was Your Biggest Fear While Giving Birth?
After nine (almost 10) months of pregnancy, some mamas will do almost anything to get their babies out. And while many expectant women enter the hospital with a birth plan in place, once they know the end is in sight, they're often willing to try it all. Consumer Reports recently compiled a list of 10 overused birthing procedures that can put both Mom and her tot at risk during delivery. Take a Read more
When a woman gives birth in the movies, the doctor stands at her pelvis ready to guide the baby into his arms and there is nary an electronic or piece of equipment in sight. In real life, the labor and delivery room is filled with monitors and machines ready to go at a moment's notice. Take our quiz and see just how familiar you are with these tools of the delivery trade. Take the Quiz Read more
Does it seem like today's childbirth stories are a bit more dramatic than those of our parents and grandparents? While it may feel like a natural side effect of our oversharing generation (back then, no one was tweeting or Facebooking labor updates to their social networks), according to a recent study, women actually are spending significantly more time in labor today than they were 50 years Read more
When Australian tourist Rachel Evans unexpectedly went into labor at Vancouver International Airport last Summer, some three months before her due date, the baby's health and well-being were the immediate concern for the new mom and dad John Kan. After the baby, Piper, was born, she needed 90 days of neonatal care, and while the couple took out travel insurance and extra coverage, they did not Read more
Just call them the baby catchers! While many moms-to-be agonize over who will be with them when they deliver their baby, others also put a lot of thought into who will be the first person to touch their tot when he is born — or who will "catch" their lil one. While millions of viewers watched Kourtney Kardashian pull baby Mason out by herself, others have assigned spouses, parents, and dear Read more
We're excited to share this post from our partners at BabyCenter! Every week, we will be bringing you the best parenting and lifestyle stories from the experts at BabyCenter, including this post from Nancy Johnson Horn about tips for easing labor pain. I remember going into labor over 6 years ago with my first child. When my water broke 11 days early I couldn’t remember a thing, other than Read more
Ready or not, here he comes! Regardless of whether or not you had a written plan for your lil one's birth, when baby's ready to come, there's little mom can do to stop him! Such was the case for Rabita Sarkar of Harrison, NJ, who thought she was feeling false labor pains and decided to use them as an opportunity to do a trial run to test her route to the hospital. Soon after boarding the PATH Read more
New moms love to talk about poop. The color, the consistency, the frequency, etc., but in the delivery room, it is a tightly held secret. For many expectant mamas, the prospect of pooping on the delivery table is the scariest part of delivery — even more than labor pains. On last night's episode of Up All Night, Reagan's biggest fear of dropping a deuce was escalated when the doctor filling in Read more
Baby Skyler has arrived! On last night's episode of The Rachel Zoe Project, we got a peek inside the fashionista's extremely stylish delivery. In the days leading up to the lil one's birth, we watched as she packed pieces of Chanel and thigh-high boots into her hospital bag and made arrangements for hair and makeup during her stay. But when the celebrity stylist's water broke in the middle of Read more
It's hard to surprise an experienced mama, but that's just what happened when Jessica Alba gave birth to baby Haven in August. In addition to welcoming a daughter who didn't look like her big sister, Jessica Alba told People that the tot arrived still enclosed in her amniotic sac — otherwise known as in the caul. Such births are extremely rare, but as the proud papa noted, "She was born in her Read more
