Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know (The ParentData Series Book 1)

makes me feel comfortable and confident that I’m making the right choices.

Women with a doula were less than half as likely to have an epidural, had shorter labor, were about half as likely to have a C-section, and were half as likely to have forceps used in delivery.

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In addition to cervical length on its own, there is a more comprehensive measure of how far you have progressed, called the Bishop score. This is a number (between 0 and 13) that takes into account various things about the cervix (its position, how effaced you are, how dilated you are) and the position of the baby (very high up, or low down). A hig

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When I first got the positive pregnancy test I was worried

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researchers find that women who are induced with Pitocin are more likely to use an epidural;