Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “hospital birth”
Until recently, expecting families on the Dallas side of town have not had a lot of options if they wanted to chose hospital based midwifery care. For years, the biggest and busiest hospitals in Dallas, Plano, Frisco and Richardson had NO midwives on staff or with privileges to deliver babies in their facilities. While most of these hospitals still do …
Choosing where to have your baby is an important question. Here are some questions to considert as you think about your choices.
Are you considering having your baby at Baylor All Saints in Fort Worth, Texas? Great Expectations Doulas believe that when expecting families match their goals and desires with a hospital or other place that supports those goals then labor is almost always a good experience. Since hospitals vary so much in what they offer, our “What to Expect” series explores …
September is a special month for me. It’s my birthday month, but it is also NICU Awareness month- an awareness month I never imagined I would be aware of, but here I am…AWARE. The Emotions When I was asked to write something about our NICU experience, my first response was “I will. BUT I will have 20 drafts of emotional …
This is Felicity’s birth story. I was worried that I was in for another very long birth (HERE is the recap of my son Wilder’s 76-hour marathon birth story.) Around my due date, I had days of contractions, but nothing really consistent or painful enough for me to say “OK this is labor.” It felt imminent, but labor just never came. My due date sailed past …
Everything you ever wanted to know about having a baby at Baylor Dallas..
Everything you ever wanted to know about having a baby at Baylor Frisco in North Texas.
Cut It Out by Theresa Morris brings new insight to what she calls the Cesarean epidemic in American. This a must read for expecting women and anyone who works with them including OBs, nurses, doulas, childbirth educators and midwives. Read why, you will be surprised.
Great Expectations Doula, Mara Pokluda, gives hip squeezes in Frisco, TX.
Ah, the lowly hospital gown. It isn’t much to look at and for moms planning to breastfeed, it isn’t all that practical once the baby arrives. However, donning the gown is often one of the very first rituals of giving birth in a hospital. Most women don’t even think twice about shedding whatever maternity clothes they arrived in and changing …
