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How to Verify You Have a Good Doctor Without Offending Anyone

May 16, 2016 By Lauren McClain

What do you do when you're on vacation and looking for a place to eat? You can go to a fast food place or a chain restaurant and have a good idea of what you're going to get. This is because everything is franchised and standardized. If you want a better, memorable experience, though, you probably look [...]

How to Align Baby for Easier Birth

April 25, 2016 By Lauren McClain

Get Baby in the Best Position! Your baby has an active role in her birth. She must rotate and tuck, hold and kick her body in certain ways to be born. She needs your help to do this. Babies who are lined up optimally for birth come out faster and easier than those who […]

Intervention Prevention: A Quick Checklist

April 20, 2016 By Lauren McClain

In order to prevent unwanted or unnecessary interventions, you can think and plan ahead of time. Consider: We Birth the Way We Live Thinking about how you have faced challenges in the past may help you know how to prepare for birth. Also Consider: Birth is Part of Our Sexuality Ask yourself what birth ambiance you [...]

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 [...]

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 […]