Depending on your health and the health of the pregnancy, doctors may choose to induce labor anytime after 39 weeks.

Birthing and peanut exercise balls are two non-pharmacologic interventions that are frequently used during labor. Although midwives and nurses have been using birthing and peanut balls during labor ...

Brittany Sharpe McCollum, childbirth educator and founder of Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth Services, shares her tips for an empowering labor and delivery. I want to make a birth plan. What should ...

The short answer is, not exactly. The start of labor is defined as the onset of regular contractions that lead to cervical change, according to Estela DiFranco Field, a midwife and associate medical ...

(NEW YORK) — Catch any pregnant woman in the days right before or after her due date and she may be doing anything form eating spicy peppers to pacing around the house — all hoping that one of the old ...