Labor & Childbirth

Labor & Birth Articles

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Preparing for Childbirth

Labor & Delivery

Labor Support: Birth Coaches & Doulas

Cord Blood Banking: Saving Stem Cells

Preparing for Childbirth

• Preparing For Birth: Childbirth Education Classes (PGH)
• Choosing a Birth Caregiver (CLE)
• A Guide to Birth Planning (CLE)
• The Webster Technique: Chiropractic Care for Pregnant Mothers with Breech Babies (CLE)
• Exercising Control Over Your Birth Experience: Creating a Birth Plan (SL)
• What to Expect When You Get to the Hospital (NJ)
• Childbirth Classes: Birth Education Designed for Today's Parents (CHIC)
• The Webster Technique (CHIC)
• Having the Birth That’s Right for You: Not Your Mother, Your Sister or Your Friend
• A Peaceful Birth? (CT)
• Childbirth Education: What Classes Should I Take Before My Baby is Born? (CT)
• Home Sweet Home - Planning for Homebirth (PGH)
• A Calm, Gentle Birth? What You Should Know about Hypnobirthing (PGH)
• HypnoBirthing - The Mongan Method: Taking the Birth World by Calm (CT)
• Birth Plans (SL)
• Hypnosis and Childbirth (CHIC)
• Preparing for Natural Childbirth (PGH)
• Childbirth Education Classes (PHIL)
• Guided Birth Imagery
• C-sections / Midlife Motherhood: What's Age Got to Do with it?
• Mother-Friendly Birth Care
• Cesarean Delivery (PHIL)
• Cesarean Births (CHIC)
• Cesarean Sections (C-sections) (NJ)
• The Confidence Factor (PGH)
• Childbirth Preparation Classes (CT)
• Childbirth Preparation Classes (PHIL)
• Hydrotherapy During Labor & Birth (CT)
• Childbirth Education (NJ)
• Preparing for Childbirth (NJ)
• Childbirth Education Classes (PGH)
• Childbirth Classes: Training a Labor Athlete (CHIC)
• Natural Childbirth (CHIC)
• Inducing Labor (PGH)
• Anesthesia and Childbirth (SL)
• Alternative Methods of Pain Relief for Birth (HOU)

Labor & Delivery

• Labor: A Painful Pleasure (AT)
• Hypnosis for Childbirth (BO)
• Stages of Labor (CLE)
• Hypnosis for Childbirth: How Can It Be Useful To You? (CHIC)
• Labor & Delivery: What to Expect
• Pain Relief During Labor and Delivery (CLE)
• Stages of Labor - What to Expect (PHIL)
• Stages of Labor (HOU)
• Stages of Labor - What to Expect (NJ)
• The Process of Labor and Delivery (SL)
• Stages of Labor (CHIC)
• Labor and Delivery (PGH)
• Hydrotherapy During Labor & Birth (CT)
• The Confidence Factor (PGH)
• Home Sweet Home - Planning for Homebirth (PGH)
• C-sections / Midlife Motherhood: What's Age Got to Do with it?
• Cesarean Delivery (PHIL)
• Cesarean Births (CHIC)
• Cesarean Sections (C-sections) (NJ)
• Inducing Labor (PGH)
• Anesthesia and Childbirth (SL)
• Alternative Methods of Pain Relief for Birth (HOU)

Labor Support: Birth Coaches / Doulas

• Doulas: A Birthing Companion (AT)
• Is a Doula for You? (PGH)
• Doula Provides Birth and Postpartum Support (NJ)
• Choosing a Doula (CHIC)
• Dads and Doulas
• The Coach’s Role in Labor & Delivery (CHIC)
• The Value of a Birth Doula (CT)
• Return of The Doula: Labor Doulas (CHIC)
• Postpartum Doula (CT)
• What is a Monitrice?
• The Value of Labor Support (PGH)
• Why a Doula? (PGH)
• “The Doula” - Continuous Labor Support (HOU)
• What is a Doula? (HOU)
• Making Room for Doulas (NJ)
• What is a Doula?
• Postpartum Doulas (PHIL)

• Cord Blood Banking: Answers to Common Questions
• Cord Blood Banking - The Top 3 Questions
• Preserving Your Newborn's Umbilical Cord Blood (CHIC)
• Umbilical Cord Blood Banking (CT)
• Saving Your Baby's Stem Cells

Labor & Birth Services
To search by city or area, you can use the links provided below to find birth doulas, cord blood banks, hospitals and birth centers, childbirth education classes, and more:

• Chicago, Illinois
• Connecticut
• Houston, Texas
• Northeast New Jersey
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• St. Louis, Missouri