If only morning sickness were just relegated to the mornings! Here’s some help for women coping with nausea during pregnancy, especially during the early months. You’re sailing along on your early pregnancy adventure — just little breast tenderness and more frequent urination, but nothing you can’t handle. Until one day, you wake up feeling queasy. Does it seem…

Proponents of eating the placenta say the practice has benefits — but is that true? And what are the risks? Here’s what you need to know about eating the placenta and how to decide if it’s right for you. Animals do it. Chinese medicine has advocated it for centuries. The practice of eating your placenta, called…

Wondering how you can prepare for childbirth? The last few weeks of pregnancy are always the longest — but they can also be the busiest. Not only is your body preparing for childbirth (thanks, Braxton Hicks contractions!), but your mind is too, which is why that urge to “nest” may have resulted in a freezer…

Practice contractions, called Braxton Hicks, can start midway through your pregnancy and continue until the end. Here’s how to tell the difference between these false labor contractions and the real thing. How do you get to labor and delivery? Practice, practice, practice. You might not be ready for the baby just yet (still haven’t picked…

Some people experience hot flashes after pregnancy. Learn why they occur, the link to breastfeeding, and how you can manage them. Just when you thought the weird pregnancy symptoms were over after birth, enter postpartum hot flashes. Many people associate hot flashes with menopause, but they can also occur during other times of hormonal fluctuations, such…

Everything you’ve wanted to know so you can decide if a postpartum doula is right for you. This Mom Told Her Boyfriend’s Kids They Had to Follow This Dinnertime Rule Photo: Parents / Getty Images Postpartum doulas are trained to assist people during the postpartum period, which is the first few months after delivery. They support…

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Photographer Marry Fermont, who lives in the Netherlands, has captured the birth of hundreds of babies in intimate detail. She told BabyCentre: “When you’re at a birth, you see a baby slowly come into the world. You see it happen step by step, and the moment is unbelievable, but once the baby is out it’s even…