Pregnancy and Childbirth

An overview of breastfeeding with simple nursing tips for mom and techniques for keeping your baby healthy. Learn why colostrum is so important, how to deal with engorgement and what to do if your newborn has mild jaundice.

Making your own facial preparations and whole-body treatments can be as simple as visiting the local grocery store with no need for expensive items or harsh, chemical preservatives. What better time to cut out the toxic chemicals and embrace homemade beauty products than during your pregnancy? Here are some tips about ingredients for make-it-yourself body products.

The artificial induction of labor in hospitals seems to be more common than ever these days. Many women view their due date as an expiration date on a gallon of milk and believe that if their labor has not started by their due date, something must be wrong. They believe that their body will not know when to start laboring.

Labor induction is becoming more and more routine in many hospitals it seems, and I wanted to take the chance to partner with the Lamaze Six Healthy Birth Practices to share my labor stories. Labor does begin on its own, and when it does, childbirth is easier with fewer risks of complications. Here are my stories.

Every year, BabyCenter.com ranks names. With over 17,000 names for girls, some seem unbelievable. And with a daughter on the way, we need to come up with a name that is unusual without being extremely unusual.

Being a military family, ours can be less than conventional at times.  For example, we are about to have our third child and I feel as though I'm going to be a father for the first time.