When pregnancy is not happening as you hoped, it is very easy to start wondering what you are doing wrong. Often, the more you search online, the longer the list becomes: supplements, diets, fertility teas, acupuncture, hormone tests, egg-quality protocols, sperm tests and increasingly complicated fertility treatments. A more helpful place to start is to understand What needs to happen for pregnancy to occur? An egg needs to mature and be released from the ovary. Sperm need to be present at...

Many women feel unsure about the idea of having a third person, such as a doula, present at such an intimate moment as birth. I remember feeling exactly that way when I was choosing my own doula. I wondered: Will I feel comfortable having someone there while I am in pain, vulnerable and pushing my baby out? Will I somehow hold myself back because another person is in the room? But something shifted when I met my doula. Talking to her made birth feel both completely natural and incredibly...