Likewise, if your baby's buttocks are positioned first in the birth canal, called breech presentation, you may experience ...

Not ideal! Epidurals numb your nerves so you can’t feel the pain of your contractions, so in many cases you can't move around once you've had one (unless it's mobile, naturally). That does increase ...

Is giving birth painful? After years of censoring the truth ... I bumped into a friend from my antenatal class a few weeks after her baby was born, while I was still massively pregnant.

A collection of clinical and animal studies suggest that exposure to pain during the neonatal period leads to long-term changes in neural circuitry and behavior, contradicting the theory that infa ...

It’s not only painful. It can be lethal ... Following is a transcript of the video. Imagine giving birth to a 24 pound baby. That’s 3 times the size of the average human newborn.

Some women feel pain in their pelvis long after they've given birth. If this happens to you ... or have sex. If your baby's head presses on your pelvic bones a certain way during childbirth ...

"But I believe childbirth is not inherently painful or dangerous ... cannot catch a baby except in an emergency," Shanley confirms. "We strongly recommend that a home birth be attended by someone ...

Hu Danfeng is about to give birth to her first and much-wanted baby. Two hours into labor, she is in so much pain she can barely speak. Her doctor injects anesthesia into her lower back.

There are also other tactics. As with my home birth, simple strategies like listening to your choice of music or using a heating pad can reduce pain. So can timing the procedure to coincide with ...