ARTICLE & RESOURCE ARCHIVE

 

PREGNANCY

  • My Wife And I Are (Both) Pregnant >>
  • Nine Beauty Ingredients To Avoid In Pregnancy >>
  • Consumer Reports’ New Ratings Help Consumers Choose the Right Hospital and May Lower C-Section Rates >>
  • Your Complete Guide To Prenatal Testing >>
  • Pregnant Women's Medical Care Too Often Affected By Race >>
  • Midwives Not Medicine Rule Pregnancy In Sweden With Enduring Success >>
  • The Brutal Truth About Being a Pregnant Worker in 2016: It's Pretty Awful >>
  • The Secret Sadness Of Pregnancy With Depression >>
  • Pelvic Floor Health >>
  • What Every Pregnant Woman Needs To Know About Cesarian Birth >>
  • Having A Baby: Help with managing your money before, during and after the birth of your baby. UK  >>
  • How do pregnant women use quality measures when choosing their obstetric provider? >>
  • Pregnant & Disputing The Doctor >>
  • Preparing for the biggest change in your life: How preventive couples counseling can protect your relationship after baby >>

BIRTH

  • New York County Hospitals Maternity Information >>

  • Giving Birth In Different Worlds >>
  • What is the Evidence For Perineal Massage During Pregnancy To Prevent Tearing >>
  • Midwife Explains The Spiritual Side Of Birth >>
  • Why I Had My Babies With a Midwife Instead of a Doctor >>
  • Labor Induction: The Low Down On Natural Approaches From A Midwife-MD >>
  • How To Have A Positive Caesarian Birth >>
  • Protecting Your Perineum - Birthful Podcast >>
  • C-Sections Are Best With A Little Bit Of Labor >>
  • When A Baby Isn't So Big >>
  • Every Pregnant Woman Should Have A Doula >>
  • Five Things You Didn't Know About Giving Birth In A Hospital >>
  • Why Women Who Fear Birth Spend More Time In Labor >>
  • Avoid Giving Birth On Your Back And Follow Your Body's Urges To Push >>
  • 10 Reasons Why More Parents Are Choosing to Have A Natural Birth (Without An Epidural) >>
  • Most Healthy Women Would Benefit From A Light Meal During Labor >>
  • Why Are Due Dates Usually So Wrong? >>
  • I Never Thought I'd Hire A Doula, But I'm So Glad I Did >>
  • Your Biggest C-Section Risk May Be Your Hospital >>
  • New York County Hospital Maternity Information >>
  • Doulas From The Dads Perspective >>
  • Why Are Medical Professional Who Deliver Babies In Hospitals Choosing To Have Their Own Babies At Home >>
  • What To Reject When You're Expecting >>
  • How to Cut Your Odds of Having a C-Section When You Don't Really Need One >>
  • Here's Another Way Midwives Make C-Sections Less Likely >>
  • Natural C-Section Video >>
  • Laughing Gas Changing The Way Women Endure Labor Pain >>
  • Fighting Gravity During Labor Makes Birth Harder For Mom And Baby >>
  • Routine episiotomy is harmful. Consent is essential. >>
  • Are Women's Birth Sounds Silenced in the Hospital? >>
  • Why I Write Birth Stories >>
  • Medications For Pain Relief During Labor And Delivery >>
  • Are Women Pushing Too Hard And Too Soon In Labor? >>
  • Torn Apart By ChildBirth >>
  • Failure To Progress, The Simple Solution Nobody Knows >>
  • This Is Birth With Lisa Ling >>
  • Cervical Dilation And Effacement GIF >>
  • When To Say No To A C-Section, How To Talk To Your Doctor About Your Delivery Options >>
  • Variation in C-Section Rates By Labor & Delivery Nurses >>
  • Too Many Opioids After Cesarian Delivery >>
  • Doula Care, Birth Outcomes, and Costs Among Medicaid Beneficiaries >>
  • Birth in the United States: an overview of trends past and present >>
  • The Most Common Childbirth Practice in America Is Unnecessary and Dangerous >>
  • From A Dad's Point Of View: Feeling Helpless During A Difficult Birth >>

POSTPARTUM

  • What Does A PostPartum Doula Do And Why You Might Hire One? >>
  • Why Every New Mom Needs Physical Therapy >>
  • Grieving Over An Unnatural Childbirth >>
  • The Dos And Don'ts Of Diastasis Recti >>
  • When It All Comes Together, Diastasis Recti Healed >>
  • Inside The Painful, Lonely Experience Of Birth Trauma >>
  • Women More Afraid Of Childbirth Than Previously Thought >>
  • Millions of Women Are Injured During Childbirth. Why Aren't Doctors Diagnosing Them? >>
  • A Tale Of Two Births: How The U.S. Fails To Deliver Adequate Postpartum Health Care >>
  • Caring For Your Core, Back And Pelvic Floor After Birth >>
  • Vaginal And C-Section Scar Massage >>
  • Are Hospitals The Wrong Place To Give Birth? >>
  • When Evidence Says No But Doctors Say Yes >>
  • The Birth Of A Mother >>

NEWBORN CARE

  • The Fourth Trimester - Why Newborns Hate Being Put Down >>
  • The Troubled History Of The Foreskin >>
  • Some Babies Are Just Easier Than Others >>
  • Rub It In: Making the Case for the Benefits of Vernix Caseosa >>

BREASTFEEDING

  • Breastfeeding: One Man's Perspective >>
  • Breastfeeding The Microbiome >>
  • Traumatic breastfeeding experiences are the reason we must continue to promote it >>
  • Considering Breastfeeding? This Guide Can Help >>
  • The More I Learn About Breast Milk The More Amazed I Am >>
  • Support For Breastfeeding In A Multitude Of Ways >>
  • Breastfeeding Services Lag Behind The Law >>
  • Breastfeeding: One Man’s Perspective >>

PARENTING

  • How To Get Dads To Take Parental Leave? Seeing Other Dads Do It. >>
  • How To Strengthen Your Relationship For Parenthood >>
  • Revolutionary Parenting >>
  • Dear Ijeawele, Or a Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions >>
  • Twenty-First Century Victorians >>
  • The Privatization Of Childhood >>

WORK AT HOME AND AWAY FROM HOME

  • Your Back To Work After Motherhood Stories - WNYC >>
  • What the woman out on maternity leave wants everyone back at the office to know >>
  • Why Companies Have Started To Coach New Parents >>
  • Why It's So Much Harder For Mothers To Start Businesses >>
  • Most Major U.S. Employers Fail on Paid Paternity Leave. The ACLU Says That’s Illegal. >>

FEMINISM

  • Motherhood and Marginalization: The Oppressive History of the Birth Industry >>
  • These Are The Best Countries To Be A Woman >>
  • Maternal deaths worldwide drop by half, yet shocking disparities remain >>
  • What's Behind The Increase In Maternal Deaths In The U.S. >>
  • Why Is U.S. Maternal Mortality So High >>
  • How Doctors Take Women's Pain Less Seriously >>

LOSS & MISCARRIAGE

  • The Internet Still Thinks I'm Pregnant >>
  • What's Killing America's Black Infants >>