What Your Partner Should Watch for After Birth
A practical postpartum plan for partners: what changes to notice, when to call a provider, when to call 911, and how to help after the call.
Woke Up on Your Back While Pregnant? What to Do Next
Woke up on your back during pregnancy? Turn onto either side and go back to sleep. Here is what the guidance says and which other signs need a call.
Cradle Cap: Your Baby Cannot Feel It
Your baby feels nothing. You feel all of it, which is the only way cradle cap gets worse. The oil to skip, the one both pages name, and when to call.
Postpartum Hair Loss: It Slows Before It Stops
There is no day it stops. There is a slope measured in months, a drain that cannot tell you anything, and one loose hair worth finding on your baby.
Heartburn at Night in Pregnancy: It Is Not What You Ate
The dinner list was never the lever. What moves night heartburn in pregnancy is the slope you sleep on and the gap between your antacid and your iron.
Sore Nipples From Breastfeeding: Unlatch and Start Over
Sore nipples are a position problem, not a skin problem. The fix is taking the baby off in the middle of a feed and starting again.
Stitches After Birth: The Risk Is Not That They Tear
Stitches almost never come apart from force. What actually goes wrong is infection, and it arrives as the first day that hurts more than yesterday.
Swollen Feet in Pregnancy: Sitting Down Is Not the Fix
Sitting down is not what brings the swelling down. Not staying in one position is, and two items on the NHS list of four pull against each other.
When Your Newborn Stops Breathing in Her Sleep
Normal and urgent make the same sound, which is no sound. The two things that actually separate them are her color and whether the pause ends.
Postpartum Preeclampsia: Symptoms That Look Like Recovery
Every symptom on the list turns up with a perfectly good postpartum explanation already attached, and the explanation gets there first.