Preparing for labor? There’s more to do than packing your hospital bags and learning Lamaze! One of the best ways you can get ready to have a baby—on top of writing a birth plan, taking a class, and researching hospital policy—is to get to know yourself as intimately as possible….
6 Tips for Packing Your Hospital Bag
How you choose to give birth may be a very personal choice, but so is what you decide to pack in your hospital bag for the big day! This post isn’t a checklist for what you need to bring, because everyone is different and what worked for me may not…
Forming Emergency Birth Plans…then Letting Go
Childbirth can be intimidating, am I right? It seems like our brains come up with so many what if scenarios—even before we read other women’s emergency birth stories online or endure random strangers piling on other worries that keep us up at night. What if I don’t make it to…
Visitors After Birth | 4 Things to Consider Before Making Plans
It’s easy for things to go wrong when it comes to hospital visitors after birth, because emotions run high and having a baby brings people together in odd ways that daily life doesn’t, just like with weddings. Plus, things rarely go the way we expect them to, and that can…