Use this oxytocin handout at prenatal appointments and in birth classes as a powerful way to help couples understand the importance of environment, relaxation, and love for labor. Here's a handy, easy to read graphic on the science and uses of the hormone oxytocin. When you understand how your body works, you can work with your [...]

One way we can make birth more comfortable, easier, and faster is to move around and use various positions for laboring out of bed.  Allowing yourself freedom of movement throughout makes active labor more comfortable and the baby is able to come down more easily. (Buy and download the labor positions pdf here.) This handout [...]

All about epidural handout and fact sheet. How epidural works, why people like epidural, why they don't, the risks, benefits, and details. Few procedures are as misunderstood as the epidural. It's wise to know before labor the pros and cons of epidural, ways to use it in labor and what it's like to get an [...]