Lauren McClain, Author at Better Birth Blog

Better Birth Guide to Inducing Labor

June 10, 2015 By Lauren McClain

YOUR DUE DATE First, Is your due date accurate? I’ve written before about the reliability of assigning due dates based on last menstrual period (LMP). The long and the short of it is that no one knows when your baby is actually ready to be born or when is too long to wait for it [...]

Which of Your Children Would You Save?

February 11, 2015 By Lauren McClain

Has anyone ever brought up the hypothetical "which of your kids would you save" question to you? The story is something like: the box of diapers you are bringing home from Target has a ticking bomb in it and you only have time to remove one of your car seat-buckled children. Who would it be?We [...]

Permission to Use My Vagina, Please?

February 3, 2015 By Lauren McClain

My good friend, who doesn't even know I exist, is vaginal breech birth activist Robin Guy. She was musing over the sad state of affairs we have with vaginal breech birth when she said, "Why is it that I need someone's permission to use my vagina on this one day?" Robin was talking about her [...]

Remember This One Thing For An Easier Birth

January 27, 2015 By Lauren McClain

Our disgust with each other I teach birth classes to pregnant couples. We watch videos of birth to help prepare both moms and dads for what natural birth looks and sounds like, in all its variety. One night my newlywed brother-in-law and his wife joined class because they were visiting from out of town. After […]

10 Personalities of Dads At Birth

January 21, 2015 By Lauren McClain

Back in the old days, Dads weren't allowed anywhere near their laboring lovers. Some even dropped off their wives at the front door of the hospital and came back to pick her up a few days later.The Modern Man is more of a Dad, and it begins right away. Dads are reading and talking about [...]