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Ask The Labor Nurse: 6 Common Complaints About Epidurals
Now that I’ve spent two weeks spouting tips for a natural birth, let’s give epidurals some equal play. Around 61 percent of you will get an epidural at some point in your labor, so let’s answer a few...
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Ask The Labor Nurse: The Truth About Twins
I’m always the last in line when it comes to television, but I’ve finally gotten caught up on Call the Midwife, the PBS series about midwifes and nuns in a gritty neighborhood in London in the 1950s....
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5 Pregnancy and Parenting Tips That Are 100 Percent True—Almost Every Time
Here you are reading an advice blog about how to have a baby and the best piece of advice I can give you is to disregard every bit of advice you get.That’s because anything I tell you today, someone...
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Vaginal Discharge During Pregnancy
It’s the little things that really get us worked up. Things like a weird discharge, a spot of blood, a wet pair of underwear or an annoying itch that just won’t go away. These little things create...
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Ask The Labor Nurse: Three Gifts for Mothers Day
Happy Mothers Day! I believe with all my heart that every mother deserves to be spoiled rotten on this special day. Motherhood is a demanding job right from the start and it stays that way long after...
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Ask The Labor Nurse: Is Picotin Safe?
I’ve been on a toot for years about the overuse of Pitocin (aka oxytocin) for unnecessary inductions and augmentation of labor. My concerns have focused on what it does to Mom’s labor and our...
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Genetic testing made headlines last week when Angelina Jolie announced her double mastectomies. Knowing she carried a gene that dramatically increased her odds for developing cancer, she chose to...
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How To Help Your Partner Be A Great Dad
I don’t think we show dads enough love here in the blogosphere so this month I’m dedicating my blog to the guys. Every week in June, I’ll dish out my very best advice for mothers and fathers on how to...
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Ask The Labor Nurse: What Kind of Dad Will You Be?
Two dads at the parkHe sat at the edge of the playground fiddling with his phone and flicking ashes off his cigarette as his toddler played in the sandbox. Totally absorbed in his phone life, he didn’t...
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Dutch and American Dads Experience Labor
Many of you have seen the YouTube video of Dutch guys “in labor.” Now there’s another one circulating about American men “in labor.” Each of the guys is hooked up to an electrical stimulation...
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6 Tips for Dads “In Labor”
For every mother who goes into labor, there’s a guy out there (and very likely right there in the labor room) who’s having a baby too. I don’t mean that literally. Lots of women have babies without a...
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Haggling for Maternity Healthcare
An article that posted in the New York Time’s Well column this week talks about what women without health insurance and those with policies that exclude maternal healthcare go through when trying to...
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Is Worrying Part of Motherhood?
Telling a mother not to worry is silly. It’s in our nature. It’s what we do. That said, that’s exactly what I’m going to say this week. Quit worrying, my dears. It’s not good for you.I’ve received so...
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Ask The Labor Nurse: Why Home Births Can Be Safe
Last weekend I hung out with a student just beginning her journey through nursing school. She’s planning on working in labor and delivery when she graduates and had a few questions. Not surprisingly,...
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Stop Judging The Royals: We Were All Once First-Time Parents
Let the royal baby/parent judging begin. Right from the get go, media outlets, bloggers and journalists are already criticizing Princess Catherine and Prince William as parents and finding them...
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Ask The Labor Nurse: World Breastfeeding Week
It’s World Breastfeeding Week and we’re going all post-crazy about it. You’ll find all kinds of stories about why breastfeeding is important, how to solve breastfeeding problems and stories of women...
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Why More Medicine Doesn’t Always Equal Better Medicine
I was listening recently to an episode of Fresh Air on NPR in which the show's host, Terry Gross, interviewed journalist Elisabeth Rosenthal on the high price of healthcare, and in which the two women...
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3 Reasons Not to Freak Out About Your Pregnancy
I often get emails from pregnant women, their partners or family members asking some variation of this question: “Do I need to worry about this?” Sometimes “this” is first trimester discharge, or low...
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