I won’t pretend to know what it feels like to be in labor. I was one of those C-section moms due to valid medical reasons. But I’ve witnessed deliveries of a friend and a sister and I can imagine that distractions during labor could come in handy.
Maternal belly dancing
What about belly dancing in the delivery [...]
Tags: dancing, delivery, delivery room, distractions, eating, labor
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While a first-time labor and delivery usually lasts around many hours, sometimes, babies just decide that they are coming out. Now.
Babies are occasionally born on airplanes, on the subway, on the front lawn, and more often than you would think in a car on the way to hospital.
A mom in Cambridge, in the UK, delivered [...]
Tags: airplanes, birth, delivery, fifth avenue, first time labor, labor, Travel
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I am only slightly showing with my child, but I am already wearing maternity clothing. My teen asked me why this was the other day. Because I feel the need to make it obvious to the world that I am slightly larger than usual because I am pregnant, not because I am almost [...]
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My son was born in Korea. When I had my baby shower, another expatriate friend of mine told me how after delivering three babies overseas, she went home so she could have her fourth in an American hospital. But the baby had other plans, and emerged in the parking lot of a Piggly Wiggly grocery [...]
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Ice skating star Jayne Soliman was 25 weeks pregnant when she collapsed and suffered from a brain hemorrhage last week. Doctors at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in the UK kept the mother’s heart beating long enough to deliver the baby. Aya Jayne was born last Friday, January 9 just weighing over 2 lbs but otherwise [...]
Tags: brain dead, delivery, skating star
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