After giving birth

Second time mom, overcomes back labor challenges to avoid epidural and attempt a water birth at Prisma Greenville hospital.

Positive Hospital birth with epidural. Harrisburg Birth Photographer

The *Essential* List of Postpartum Essentials (Fourth Trimester Must-Haves) ; Opens a new tab Wondering which postpartum essentials you'll actually need and use after giving birth? Here are the fourth trimester must-haves that I WISH I stocked up on before baby during my first time pregnancy! (aka postpartum recovery kit/postpartum must haves, postpartum care kit for postpartum recovery

Expecting mothers learn plenty about labor as well as delivery during childbirth. And, women love to recount this experience with their closed ones

The days and weeks following delivery of your baby can be stressful. Follow these tips of what not to do after childbirth and ease the transition home.

The postpartum period is the time when a mother’s body returns to its pre-pregnancy condition. Learn how it recovers and what you should expect in the postpartum period.

Some people say they can actually still feel baby kicks years after giving birth. Here, experts break down the phenomenon of phantom kicks.

Think it’s not possible to experience the magic of holding your baby skin-to-skin and breastfeed in the operating room after a cesarean birth? We are happy to share that, in many cases, it is possible! Though it is not (yet) common practice, a growing number of providers are embracing skin-to-skin and breastfeeding immediately following a c-section. This is part of a movement toward a more family-centered (or “gentle”) cesarean birth experience. We can’t guarantee that your provider will…

After giving birth, I went to the emergency room three times with excruciating pain. Doctors finally realized I had fecal impaction. While I wanted the pain gone, I worried if my husband would ever look at me the same way again.

One of the first things I said after giving birth the first time was, “I could do that so much better next time!” I learned so much about the process & how to better work with my body in our next two births. A few things I learned: 1. Being 10 cm (fully) dilated doesn’t necessarily mean that baby is ready to come out yet… I could’ve kept walking & waited much longer! 2. Just because I was told I could start pushing, doesn’t mean I needed to. My body would’ve let me know it was time to…

pt. 2 after everyone got here i was able to hang out and chat and watch my romcom show while working through contractions for about an hour. at this point it’s about 9:30/10 pm. we sent the boys to bed at their regular bedtime and told them we would wake them up once we knew he was coming (lol tried that and forgot they had josh’s sleep genes…. they did not wake up). we ended up turning frozen on for sadie to watch and she also fell asleep (which has never happened before. it was honestly a…

Amy Schumer and Christy Turlington Burns are among the more than 250 women who submitted their photos to the Life After Birth project

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FORMER Towie star Georgina Cleverley and her football player husband Tom have announced they have welcomed twins into the world. The 35-year-old is now a mum-of-four after giving birth to Sloane and Summer. She shared an adorable snap of the babies swaddled in a hospital cot and wrote: “I will NEVER find the correct words […]

Mother kissing her newborn son after he was born. #Birth photography #Birth photographer Midcoast Maine. #Newborn Photography