Browse the categorized articles below to educate yourself as you prepare for your birth:
The Birth Experience
- What Louise Ck can teach us about childbirth
- Are you scared of birth?
- 3 ways birth is like moving
- How good birth support leads to better births
- Birth and hangovers… what they have in common
Staying positive and comfortable during birth
- Water birth
- The power of birth language
- Foods to eat during birth
- How good birth support leads to better births
- Super Secret Birth Broth Recipe
The Birth Process / Physiological Birth
- Don’t worry about your pelvic size!
- Early Birthing (From my birth journal)
Third Stage / Birthing the Placenta
Postpartum Health
- Maintaining mental health in the postpartum period
- The truth about postpartum incontinence
- Backpacking with a baby
Choice in Birth Place
- 9 Practical reasons to choose home birth
- The importance of natural home birth
- Science supports home birth safety
- Dear Home Birth Skeptic
Birth Plans
- How to assess your care provider’s support of your wishes
- The #1 thing to consider when writing a birth plan
- The Key(s) to having a good birth in the medical system
Care Providers / Primary Attendants
Primary attendant options
- Traditional birth attendants
- Registered Midwives and Traditional Birth Attendants
- Find a Vancouver Midwife
- The false assumption about what drives medical recommendations
- Why it matters if your care provider “likes” doulas… even if you don’t plan to hire one
- The difference between midwives and doulas
Unassisted birth
Doulas and support people
- What does a doula REALLY do?
- 5 Tips for choosing a doula
- How good birth support leads to better births
- The difference between a midwife and a doula explained
- A dad’s experience of doulas
- The work of falling in love
- Doula network – building community
- Certification for doulas in Vancouver
- Does birth take a wealthy village
- Research shows the effectiveness of doulas
- Do doulas trust women?
Prenatal Class Options
Informed Choice
Early Newborn Care
Resources for early newborn care
Breastfeeding
Circumcision / Intact Foreskin
- Circumcision
- Caring for the intact penis
- Common pro-circumcision arguments
- Why circumcision debates matter
- The function of foreskin
- “Cutting edge science” as an excuse for circumcision
Fetal Positioning
GBS / Group B Strep
“Special” Circumstances in birth
Common Medications and Interventions
- Trying to start a “stalled” birth process
- Induction Risks
- Epidurals
- The “C” Word: understanding cervical exams
- Standard procedures immediately after birth
Birth culture
Research and Guidelines
Birth Quotes, Photos, Videos
Men and Birth
Pregnancy Discomforts
Birth Activism
- Birth Rally – Why Rally??
- Birth Rally at St. Paul’s Hospital
- Hoping for dialogue
- Three-sided approach to improving birth
- Mothers stand up for midwives
Birth Trauma
Getting To Know Jessica (Birth Takes a Village author & doula)
- Saving the birth world
- Guess what Jess the doula said
- Why I’m a doula
- Catchin’ a birthday baby
- Birthing New Mothers
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