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Labor Prep & Birthing Tools

Birthing balls, peanut balls, TENS units and comfort tools for late pregnancy and labor.

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Inducing Labor at Home: What to Know Before You Try Anything

It is late, you are past the point where anything is comfortable, and you have typed a question into your …

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Heat and Cold for Labor: What to Pack and What to Ask

Hot and cold packs are on every labor bag list and almost nobody thinks about them until they are standing …

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TENS Unit for Labor: What It Is and How People Use It

A TENS unit is one of those things you hear about in a class, forget, and then remember at thirty …

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Peanut Ball: Which Size and How It Is Used in Bed

Most people meet a peanut ball for the first time in a hospital room, when someone wheels one in and …

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Labor and Delivery Gown: Your Own or the Hospital’s?

The hospital gown is free, it is already there, and nobody has to wash it afterwards. That is a genuinely …

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Birthing Ball vs Peanut Ball: Two Tools, Two Jobs

They turn up on the same product pages, in the same bundles, in the same class handout, and it is …

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Birthing Ball Size Chart: Which Size Fits Your Height

Ball sizing looks like it should be simple, and then you open three product pages and get three different charts. …

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Birthing Ball Exercises: The Movements People Actually Use

The ball arrives, you inflate it, and then you sit on it looking at your phone wondering what you are …

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Best Birthing Ball: Size, Grip and What Anti Burst Means

Somewhere in the third trimester the couch stops working. Sitting back sinks you into a shape that makes your ribs …

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Birth Comb: What It Is, and What It Is Not

The birth comb arrived in most people’s awareness through a short video: someone gripping a plain hair comb in a …

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