Calculating your due date The first thing most people do after getting a positive pregnancy test result is look up a due date calculator. That’s how ingrained the idea of a due date is in our culture. We set up our prenatal care, schedule our parental leave from work, and announce our upcoming birth with …
Heavy Thoughts on Birth
I attend births at any gestation. If my clients ask for me, I come. Many of the births I have supported have been bereavement births, and they are always so special.
Simple things I wish all people knew: cervical dilation
Do you know how dilation in labor is assessed? It is assessed by nurses, doctors, and/or midwives inserting their fingers into your vaginal and feeling the cervix. It is so subjective that one nurse might say you’re eight centimeters dilated and five minutes later your midwife might check the same cervix and call you a five.