Once you’ve made up your mind to deliver naturally, you need to actively prepare for it – by developing a birth plan, making sure you’ll be giving birth with the right caregiver in the right environment, ensuring that you have good labor support, and educating yourself about childbirth and coping techniques. You can have a drug-free delivery in a traditional hospital setting, but it’s likely to be easier to labor naturally at a birth center or at home. Birth centers are designed... 

If you want to remain in control of your body as much as possible, be an active participant throughout labor, and have minimal routine interventions such as fetal monitoring in the birth process, then a natural, unmedicated approach to controlling labor pain will suit you best. If you choose to go this route, you accept the potential for pain and discomfort as part and parcel of giving birth — an experience that includes working with complete awareness through each stage of labor. But with the... 

How soon will I know? Unless you have a test beforehand, the first indication that you may be pregnant is when your periods stop. The first signs of pregnancy Periods are sometimes late and just missing one doesn’t necessarily mean you are pregnant. But if your breasts feel swollen and you feel nauseous particularly first thing in the morning, you would be advised to have a test. When can I take a pregnancy test? You can take the test any time you think you may be pregnant. However,...