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Using Your Voice

While doctors and other providers are trusted professionals, you know your body best — trust your instincts! If something seems wrong or feels off, it is in your best interest to speak up for a safe and comfortable pregnancy.

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Using Your Voice

Using Your Voice

While doctors and other providers are trusted professionals, you know your body best — trust your instincts! If something seems wrong or feels off, it is in your best interest to speak up for a safe and comfortable pregnancy.

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Considering Cesarean Birth

Considering Cesarean Birth

A cesarean birth can be a life-saving procedure, but it can also impact your health for the rest of your life. Every person needs information and support to decide if it’s the right choice for them.

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Unpacking the Postpartum Experience: What Do New Parents Need?

Unpacking the Postpartum Experience: What Do New Parents Need?

The care you receive after birth is just as important as during your pregnancy. Meet doctors, midwives, doulas, lactation consultants and new parents who share what the postpartum period is really like and how to find the support and care you need.

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Navigating Hope and Fear

Navigating Hope and Fear

While it is completely normal to feel stress or fear around pregnancy, labor, and parenthood, remember that hope and joy are important parts of your journey too. Take this time to ask the questions on your mind, create a birth plan, and prepare for the newest addition to your family — you got this!

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Asking Questions About Cesarean Birth (Spanish)

Asking Questions About Cesarean Birth (Spanish)

A cesarean birth can be a life-saving procedure, but it can also impact your health for the rest of your life. Every person needs information and support to decide if it’s the right choice for them.

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My Plans, Preferences, and Priorities for Birth
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My Plans, Preferences, and Priorities for Birth

Use this worksheet to organize your birth plan and share with your support team what matters most to you during labor and birth.

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What Matters Most During My Prenatal Care?

Making decisions about your prenatal care is easier if you have sorted out what matters most to you. Use this worksheet to think about your priorities so you can weigh your options.

What Matters Most During My Birth?

Coming up with a birth plan and making decisions will be easier if you have sorted out what matters most to you. Use this worksheet to think about your priorities so you can weigh your options.

My Plans, Preferences, and Priorities for Birth

Use this worksheet to organize your birth plan and share with your support team what matters most to you during labor and birth.

My Sources of Support During Pregnancy

Pregnancy isn’t easy, physically or emotionally. Take the time to identify and organize your sources of support to have a healthy pregnancy.

My Sources of Support for Birth

Birth isn’t easy, physically or emotionally. Take the time to identify and organize your sources of support for labor and birth.

My Sources of Support During Postpartum

Postpartum isn’t easy, physically or emotionally. Take the time to identify and organize your sources of support for yourself and your baby after birth.

My Sources of Support During My Partner’s Birth

Even if you're not the one giving birth, going through the birth experience and becoming a parent can be hard. Asking for help is an amazing way to care for yourself and your family. Start by identifying and organizing your sources of support.

My Sources of Support During My Partner’s Pregnancy

Even if you're not the one who is pregnant, expecting a baby and supporting your pregnant partner is hard. Asking for help is an amazing way to care for yourself and your family. Start by identifying and organizing your sources of support.

My Sources of Support During My Partner’s Postpartum

Even if you’re not the one who gave birth, the postpartum period is hard. Asking for help is an amazing way to care for yourself and your family. Start by identifying and organizing your sources of support.

Finding Affordable (or Free!) Doula Support

The priceless support doulas provide is often out-of-reach for people who can’t afford their fees. But more and more, there are ways to find low-cost or even free doula services. This article provides a roadmap to finding the support you need and deserve.

What You Should Know About Potential Complications & Warning Signs

Use these resources to become familiar with maternal health warning signs and possible complications.

Learn How To Take Care of Yourself Postpartum & Get Support

These websites provide background information and a list of resources to address a range of postpartum issues, including infant feeding, postpartum depression, and postpartum complications.
Using Code Words to Ask for Pain Relief

Using Code Words to Ask for Pain Relief

Picking a code word ahead of time will help ensure that you are the one who ultimately decides when you’re ready for an epidural or other pain relief.
How to Assemble & Use a Sitz Bath

How to Assemble & Use a Sitz Bath

A sitz bath is a simple but powerful postpartum tool that will help heal your body at home after vaginal birth.
Explore Your Options with the B.R.A.I.N. Technique

Explore Your Options with the B.R.A.I.N. Technique

B.R.A.I.N. is a useful technique that can help you weigh the pros and cons of any decision during pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
The Six Key Steps: Making Pregnancy and Birth Decisions

The Six Key Steps: Making Pregnancy and Birth Decisions

When deciding what’s best for you and your baby, following these six steps will help you ask the right questions and make choices with all the information you need.