Birth Plan, Big Decisions
The decisions you make as a parent are endless. Even before your baby is born you have to choose a name, a stroller, a crib and pick out a nursery theme, and then purchase and assemble it all.

Having a Home Birth
Your clothes, your bed, your family, your birth. So you want to have your baby at home.

Home Birth Help
Considering a home birth? If so, you probably want to know details about the safety of home birth and to learn what the home environment has to offer that a hospital does not.

Home Birth Stories
It used to be that giving birth at home was looked at as a "hippie" thing to do. Most people thought that no normal, conventional woman would consider such a thing, completely forgetting that until the 1920s home births were the norm.

Is Home Birth the Best of Both Worlds?
A little less than a year ago, my best friend had a baby, which made me painfully aware that my own biological clock was ticking away.

Navigating a Natural Childbirth
Sometimes we hear women say, "Just get the epidural." Then we talk to other women who are adamant about having a "natural birth.

The Home Birth Hype
Karen Hawkins of Bridgton, Maine, spent her younger years raising all sorts of animals. Before she was old enough to have children of her own, she was watching those animals give birth, and the experience left a definite impression.

The Home Birth Option
No one chooses home birth lightly. It's a decision that's usually made after much research, soul searching, serious consideration of the alternatives, and, often, pressure from relatives to go the hospital route.

The Home Birth Team
You've decided you want a home birth, but now what? How do you go about building your home birth team?

The Pros and Cons of Unassisted Birth
There's a definite trend in maternity wards, and in society at large, to make giving birth a more natural experience, more like some think nature intended it to be: quiet support, little intervention and a mobile woman in charge of her own body.