Not everyone has the kind of birth they want. Emergencies, both real and systemic occur and must be dealt with. Carefully chosen birth attendants are often unavailable and sometimes pain makes panic sets in.
Plenty of women find themselves unable to recover from childbirth because their births, instead of following the birth plan, were very, very different.

What is a biological clock? If it still exists, its ticking just got a lot quieter.
One last record was broken in 2006 and it has to do with crushing the barrier to conception that was/is menopause.
Imagine becoming a mother at 67. Well, the oldest new mother is now that age, reported the Scotsman.

New mothers are made every day (Hi Kris! Hi new baby Bodhi!). So, once a month or so I like to give the women who are just discovering Babylune an overview of what’s here.
If you’re in the middle of one of the many fantastic post partum mysteries of the human body, click on The Long List of Discomforts. Within the posts are links to posts that deal with common problems in the first days after giving birth.
You can also go to The First Six Weeks Category Archive to get an overview of what to expect in the first phase of …read more