Labor pains: Expectant parents on rural coast face limited access to nearby birthing centers Adventist Health Mendocino Coast Medical Center in Fort Bragg on Oct. 29, 2022.

This mom could give labor in her sleep. Beccaa Areli slept through her contractions, and later gave birth to her daughter in a car on the way to the hospital. She posted about the “craziest ...

Holly Smallwood claims she went through labor pains because of the way her IUD was inserted. TikTok / hollyyywood_ She reports she was told there would be some cramping seven to 10 minutes after ...

Various studies have investigated perceptions of labor pain, and although women broadly describe it as “intense, demanding and difficult,” the language they use to describe the pain varies wildly.

I just celebrated my 50th birthday. Even 50 years later, my mom still loves to tell the story of the day I was born. It had been a scorching August to that point. My mother went into labor on a ...