Birth Articles by Ann Douglas
Preparing for your baby's birth day with anticipation, not fear.
Birth Advice
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- What Other Moms Want You to Know About Giving Birth: An excerpt from the second Canadian edition of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books by Ann Douglas.
- 10 Things to Know About Your Pregnancy: Some things your best friend might forget to tell you, but that you definitely need to know.
- Six Things You Need to Know About Giving Birth: Choose the right environment, trust your body, and other words of wisdom from doulas.
Birth Advocacy
- New Group Pushes for Better Maternity Care: "We are mothers . . . We are birthing better maternity care. We are becoming mothers of change."
- Almost 1 in 20 Moms May Have Traumatic Delivery: The flashbacks are no longer a problem for Kerri Paquette. But the Brockville-area mother still gets angry when she describes how she was treated following the birth of her twin daughters, Sage and Claire.
- Maternity Care System on Brink of Collapse, Warns Physician: Canada’s long-standing shortage of maternity-care providers is likely to reach crisis proportions over the coming decade. Now is the time to start redesigning that system from the ground up.
- Thank this Doc for the Episiotomy You Won't Have: A profile of researcher and normal birth advocate Michael C. Klein, MD, whose work over the past four decades has improved the lives of mothers and babies around the world.
Ann Douglas is the author of The Mother of All Pregnancy Books and numerous other books about pregnancy and parenting.