Whether you're planning to expand your family soon or want to avoid another pregnancy for now, understanding your fertility and tracking ovulation can be a helpful tool. Frisco Midwifery has prepared this article to help you with your natural family planning.

During pregnancy, a hormone made by your baby’s placenta may prevent your body from using insulin effectively causing glucose to stay in your blood, cross the placenta, and over-feed the baby. This metabolic error causes Gestational Diabetes. This article explains the process of testing for gestational diabetes, and the steps that follow diagnosis.

The first step to managing your glucose is understanding the ins-and-outs of gestational diabetes. Here are some resources to help you learn about blood sugar and nutrition so you can succeed.

Most expectant mothers experience headaches, especially during the first 3-months of pregnancy when hormones flood your body. They can also return in the last 3-months when posture and stress may trigger muscular pain. Headaches may even be an indication that there is a significant health problem we need to investigate. Frisco Midwifery & Birth Center has created this resource to offer you some evidence-based options to help you manage headaches.

Indigestion . . . heartburn . . . acid reflux . . . whatever you call it, it’s miserable!

Frisco Midwifery & Birth Center has created this resource to help you understand what’s going on with your pregnancy, and offer you some evidence-based options to help you manage heartburn.  

During the first half of pregnancy, you increase your blood volume by 50%. Then, you have to add extra red blood cells to all that extra liquid. In the meantime, you will probably have low iron. This link explains how to increase your iron.

ometime in the first couple of days after the birth, many parents notice that their baby’s skin is turning a little bit yellow. Jaundice - yellowing skin (and sometimes even the whites of the eyes) - is not uncommon. We prepared this link to help you understand what jaundice is, how to know if it’s normal or a sign of a serious problem, and what you can do to help your baby avoid jaundice.

Babies have sleepy times, and wake times throughout the day. Knowing your baby’s normal movements will help you respond quickly in the rare event that something changes. This simple daily check-in can literally save a baby’s life.

Ideally, labor should begin on its own. But in rare circumstances it’s necessary to nudge someone into labor. IMPORTANT: The strategies in this article should NOT be used without first consulting your midwife. This article explains things that can be done to support the natural onset of labor if needed.

If the is you first birth (or the first time you get to go into labor spontaneously) you might be anxiously anticipating that moment when you get to utter those classic TV words . . . “Honey! It’s Time!”. If only it was that easy to know if labor has started. Often, you won’t know exactly when labor started until you reflect back after labor is pretty advanced.

Here’s to beginning the journey toward birth! These next weeks . . . months . . .will be filled with dynamic changes, transformation, exploration, and growth — both figuratively and metaphorically. As we begin this journey together, we want to share our vision for your care. You are the hero of your own (birth) story.

Up to 85% of expectant mothers experience “morning sickness”, In some cases it can interfere with a woman’s ability to function. In severe cases it can even be a serious cause for concern. We created this resource to help you uderstand what’s going on with your pregnancy, and offer you some evidence-based options to help you manage pregnancy-related nausea.

There are some beliefs about newborns that we want to challenge. Despite what you’ve heard, breastfeeding should not hurt. Babies should never cry themselves to sleep. And, babies are supposed to wake up to eat at night time! This article addresses those topics, and points you to upcoming baby care and bonding classes to help you prepare for parenting.

NORA Tea has many health benefits. It supports uterine contractions and toning, provides nutrition that strengthens membranes and vessels, and may even prevent excessive bleeding after birth. It is the ultimate supplement!