​REBECCA GAY CBE, CLC, DOULA

Did you know: When anonymously polled, women reported having up to four separate incidence of false labor. During these so called false starts the women reported timeable, consistent, contractions that lasted between 30 and 60 seconds, for upward of 4 hours at a time...

I wish what I'm about to tell you was a joke. I wish it was the first time I had ever seen and heard it. I wish it wasn't a semi- regular occurrence.

I just attended the birth of a beautiful first time Mama. She labored quietly through out the afternoon in a busy Atlan...