When you’re preparing for the birth of your baby, you may consider all of the ways in which you’d like to manage labor: what pain medications you plan to use, which comfort measures might help instead of medications, how you’d like to move around during labor, and more. What you might not be planning for […]
When we’re pregnant, we can’t wait to hear baby’s heartbeat. It’s one of the first signs of life in the womb. Heartbeats are picked up as a flicker at just 5 weeks gestation, but we can begin to hear them more closely around 8 weeks or later. It’s a special moment to listen in on […]
You’ve got your sweet new baby in your arms. You could spend all day watching him. Now that he’s started to have more quiet, alert time, he loves to watch you. But then you notice that perhaps one of his eyes is different than the other. Could something be wrong? About 1 in 6,250 babies are […]