What are your options when choosing a provider for your pregnancy care?

Just hours before attending my first birth as a birth doula this fall, we found out that we were expecting our third. Completely...

Entering into the 'pregnant pause' before Christmas

What if women prepared for their birth like they did for their wedding?

When you become pregnant, it's like a whole new world opens up to you. There are maternity clothes, foods you have to avoid, different...

Known as our nursing mother of happy delivery, Mother Mary is a beautiful example and reminder of the noble task of motherhood.

There are many reasons to fear labor, but you don't have to go in unprepared.

Today Maggie, the doula behind Visitation Birth Doula, shares her first birth story, as her experience breastfeeding.

The part of pregnancy nobody told me about...

What is a birth plan and why should I make one?

"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh, I am filling up what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ on behalf of...

As you approach your due date, you may start to feel contractions, but they are irregular and have no pattern. Is this labor?