Doctors ventilated her baby before she was fully delivered in order to save her life. Elianna is now 3 months old and headed to day care soon. I started having contractions about two minutes apart ...

Instead, after 50 hours of labor, I found myself asking a surgeon if she would allow me to smudge her before cutting me open.

My entire pregnancy was easy. Sure, in the first trimester, I was exhausted, but morning sickness wasn’t even a thing for me. I enjoyed the miracle of growing a baby in my belly and watching my body ...

The expectation and reality of the birth of my daughter could not have been more different. While I'd read over and over again that having a birth plan was mostly silly, given how rarely things go as ...

In HuffPost Birth Diaries we hear the extraordinary stories of the everyday miracle of birth. This week, Eva Katona, 40, shares her story. If you’d like to share yours, email amy.packham@huffpost.com.

I don’t want to be induced—I hear that it’s extra painful. But here I am at the doctor on a Monday morning for tests; it's four days past my due date, so the doctor wants to make sure all is well with ...

With less than two months to go before my due date, I've read a lot about my pain-management options, including the epidural. Before diving into the information out there, my general opinion went ...

I'm a first-time mom and didn't know what to pack in my hospital bag. I packed so many things I didn't end up using, and the ones I did were the least expensive items. Here are the 10 products that ...

The condition didn’t cause any complications with my first pregnancy. It landed me in the hospital with my second. By Tiffanie Graham At five months pregnant with my second child, I clutched my ...