birth

Here’s the ultimate hospital bag checklist for mom & baby

If you've been stressing over what you'll need for those long hours in the hospital when you give birth, we've got you.

Your guide to picking the best birth class

Knowledge is power, mama.

Are birth classes covered by insurance?

Here's how to find out if your birth class is covered by insurance or your HSA/FSA.

She had cancer at 14 and was told she’d never have children—14 years later, she had her miracle baby

You may not know the name Nicole Shulz, but if you've ever seen the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, you know her story.

These incredible “super twins” were conceived three weeks apart and their story is amazing

It's called superfetation, and it's extremely rare.

Alexandra Breckenridge says she felt “lied to” about water births

The Virgin River actor expected a serene experience with her son's water birth. It was anything but.

Why this midwife never says ‘natural birth’

I refuse to tell someone who has just given birth that their experience was anything less than a breathtaking feat of nature.

Mama, soon it’ll be hard to remember life without baby #2

Once your baby is here, you won't remember life without them

5 lies I believed about giving birth

I wish I learned sooner how wrong I was.

How I met my daughter

My daughter was born 14 weeks early.

Mama who took bar exam while in labor finds out she passed: ‘I took part of the exam sitting on towels’

"The midwives and nurses were so invested in helping me not only become a mom but also a lawyer," said Hill.

Being in labor didn’t stop this woman from voting

The mama-to-be refused to go to the hospital without casting her ballot.

American Idol alum turned influencer Casey Goode’s newborn tests positive for COVID-19

"Please send good energy to our little bub so he recovers fast."

To my doula—thank you for being by my side when I was at my most vulnerable

I hoped you would help make my second labor different from my first. What you gave me was so much more.

I had to fight to be heard when it came to feeding my baby at the hospital

And I would tell any new mother to do the same.

You are a good mother, no matter what type of birth you had

Your birth matters tremendously. And your birth doesn't matter at all.

Hospital policy saw Native American moms separated from babies during COVID-19

This investigation illustrated how much harm systemic racism can do in maternity wards.

This is the best state to give birth

But how can we make *ALL* states reach this same high standard?

‘The tentacles of racism’: On giving birth while Black in America

In this moment of societal reckoning over anti-black racism, I can't help but think about how this journey, at so many turns, has been compounded in its complexity because I am a Black mother.

My birth story: I gave birth in an Airbnb during a pandemic

I am so grateful that through perseverance, early planning and certainly some luck, I was able to manifest the birth that I wanted—even through a pandemic.