Child Delivery

Skills you need to prepare for an all natural labor and delivery. Decrease and deal with the pain of labor so that you can have an all natural childbirth.

If you're having a labor induction, childbirth can be stressful and traumatic. Here are some things that you should know about Pitocin before going in to be induced to have the most successful labor and delivery.

By the time you reach your third trimester you have probably read countless articles about kegels and hospital bags. And about water births vs squatting births, and about how imperative it is that you try different positions during labor. And you are maybe even feeling a little overwhelmed by it all.

There's nothing like the beauty and power of childbirth, and these talented birth photographers have captured it in extraordinary detail.

It's now more common that moms give birth in other positions than flat on their back. What position did you give birth in? Vote in this poll on birth positions!

Positive Hospital birth with epidural. Harrisburg Birth Photographer

Yes. You read that right. I had a 24 hour labor with no epidural. In fact, I didn't use any form of drug or medicine for pain relief. But I did use quite a few natural labor coping techniques to survive labor with no epidural. I'll share my 10 secrets to an easier labor, so you know how to prepare for an unmedicated birth of your own. These unmedicated birth techniques helped me to have a healthy pregnancy, an autonomous birth, and the confidence necessary for surviving labor.

We'll share 6 calming prayers to help mothers pray for a safe delivery of a healthy baby. Whether it's your first child or your fifth we can help.

Two weeks ago, as popular LDS author and speaker Al Fox Carraway neared the end of her pregnancy, she felt the need to share some powerful promptings about the eternal nature of families. Part of her post discussed a blessing about her son. I got a priesthood blessing about 2 months ago that just so happen […]