Better Birth

I am continually amazed that many women talk about a cervix, but don't know what it is. Some think that the perineum is the cervix. They...

Sometimes I don't have to be original and write my own posts. Someone else has already written a great one. This time it's Rebecca f...

I recently attended one of my doula client's prenatal visits with her obstetrician. She had been telling me about her obstetrician for s...

It's been a long, long time since I've posted here. I've felt bad about it for months, especially since I've had a lot of po...

On the morning of March 21 st , 2008, I started having consistent contractions and woke up around 3:30am . Not wanting to disturb my husband...

The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so. Josh Billings

Sarah, When I read your email, my heart went out to you. I know of so many women who dread to think of having another baby... because of the...

Since the last post, I have received a number of emails from women asking all sorts of questions... telling sad birth stories, asking if thi...

Last week I found myself in one of my favorite positions -- Leaning over a hospital bed, rubbing the back of a laboring mother. Over all, th...

After receiving the email from our mutual friend about her new grand baby's delivery, my friend wrote the following poem, which she has ...