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When you first find out you are pregnant, you may immediately start envisioning the perfect labor and child birth. You will be at home, your water will break, contractions will start, you will show up at the hospital, have a quick labor and delivery, and then your baby will be born! However, most of the [...]
All babies have meconium and will dispense of it through bowel movements at some point, hopefully after they are born. Meconium is the result of the first bowel movements from a newborn, and it includes cells, mucus, bile, amniotic fluid and lanugo that has been stored in the baby’s intestines while in utero. It is [...]
What is amniotic fluid and what is it’s purpose? Also referred to as the “bag of waters”, the most pregnant women generally know about it is that about the time labor begins their amniotic sac will break, or be broken by their midwife or doctor, causing the start of the delivery process. They don’t however [...]
The general population knows very little about Group B Strep (GBS), and many pregnant women have never heard of it, or have only heard of it in passing. Most are shocked when, late in the third trimester their doctor or midwife ask them to be tested, and the test then comes back positive. There are [...]
