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- The “Immediately Available” Standard: Where It Came From, What It Means, and How to Move Forward with New Evidence and Guidelines
- VBAC Success Rates and Prediction Models: Understanding Your Chances of Important Outcomes
- Weighing the Pros and Cons of Planned Vaginal Birth after Cesarean and Repeat Cesarean Section
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- A Woman’s Guide to VBAC: Navigating the NIH Consensus Recommendations
- A First Timer’s Experience with Childbirth Class
- Coming Soon on the Blog: A Woman’s Guide to VBAC
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- Have You Taken The Birth Survey?
- A Birth Story: Lauren & Baby Naomi
- Great Expectations: Liz @ 18 Weeks
- Lamaze Blogger Attends BlogHer 2010
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- Week of Giveaways: $25 Gift Card & Teether from Ecopiggy
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- Join Us Next Week for Lots of Great Giveaways!
- Great Expectations: Liz @ 16 Weeks
- Wordless Wednesday: Belly Buttons
- A Touch Today for a Better Tomorrow
- Looking for a Mother-Friendly Care Provider?
- Life Changes, Decisions and the Passion For Birth Workshop
- The Mother Lode of Pain: Getting It All Wrong at the Boston Globe
- One Mom-to-Be’s Experience with Childbirth Class
- Great Expectations: Liz @ 14 Weeks
- Pregnant with Disabilities: Type 1 Diabetes
- Pregnant with Disabilities: Depression
- Guest Post at Nature Moms Blog
- Pregnant with Disabilities: Seizures
- Practices that Promote Healthy Birth: Avoid Common Interventions
- Wordless Wednesday: Pint-Sized Professional
- Co-Sleeping Is Natural in Our House
- Weekly Reads: Eco-friendly Mama Resources
- Great Expectations: Liz @ 12 Weeks
- Practices that Promote Healthy Birth: Continuous Labor Support
- Update: Decisions & a Baby for Baby Makin(g) Machine
- From the Bedroom to the Board Room: How I Learned to Nurse in Public
- Practices that Promote Healthy Birth Series: Moving During Labor
- Wordless Wednesday: Supporting Women in Birth
- Free Weekly Newsletter for Pregnant Moms
- Weekly Reads: Breastfeeding Support
- Great Expectations: Liz @ 10 Weeks
- Your Questions Answered: Milk Supply
- Practices that Promote Healthy Birth Series: Let Labor Begin on its Own
- Healthy Birth Blog Carnival #6: MotherBaby Edition
- Weekly Reads: Pregnancy Gear
- Baby Carrier Giveaway for Deserving Dads
- Wordless Wednesday — No Longer “The Baby”
- Send in Your Photos for Wordless Wednesday!
- Natural Birth at a Hospital: Making it Work for You
- Weekly Reads: To Stay or Not to Stay… at Home
- Last Chance for the Mother & Baby Blog Carnival
- Squats: Not Just for a Cute Butt
- Pregnancy Journaling at Baby Makin(g) — 37 Weeks!
- Weekly Reads: Finding “Me Time”
- Your Questions Answered: What Is a Doula?
- Preparing for Natural Childbirth — First or Second Time
- A Birth Story: Amy & Baby June
- Weekly Reads: Postpartum Depression (PPD)
- Your Questions Answered: Real Labor vs. False Labor
- You’re Invited to Our First-Ever Blog Carnival!
- Birth Transforms in Unexpected Ways
- Weekly Reads: Make Way for Baby
- Meet the Baby Makin(g) Machine
- Your Questions Answered: Care Providers
- Weekly Reads: Words of Wisdom for First-Time Moms
- Just Breathe the Baby Out
- Birth: A Family Celebration
- Weekly Reads: Challenge Your Perception of Birth
- Breastfeed: Be a Star!
- Pick Your Issue
- A Wondrous Birth
After bringing baby home, new parents often discover that much of what they spent so much time learning and worrying about (diapering, bathing) turns out to be a piece of cake. Instead, it’s a whole set of larger issues that turn out to be more difficult than expected. Research shows that parents who anticipate and discuss these issues fare much better than those who don’t. A 
