While sporadic food cravings can be common at any point in your life, they tend to creep in much more frequently and furiously when you’re pregnant. If you’ve ever experienced them, you may be wondering why and when they typically occur. Read more:

As the midsummer heat sets in and families flock to the pool, you may be second guessing your swimsuit collection. Is it time for you to swap out your bikini for a maternity suit? To ease your search for a swimsuit, we’ve rounded up a list of our top maternity swimsuits of 2021 to help make you feel beautiful and supported in your bathing suit this summer:

Getting pregnant doesn’t always happen by chance. Fertility tracking tools make planning for pregnancy and tracking your period easier to do. There are many fertility tracking apps these days, but these are the top 5 fertility tracking apps you can count on in 2021:

When it comes to pregnancy, there are endless “shoulds” and “shouldn’ts” that will be thrown your way. Picking through the seemingly endless conflicting information and advice that’s out there can be difficult. Expert midwife, doula, lactation consultant, and owner of Cincinnati Birth Center, Meghan Nowland, weighs in on common care myths:

Summer is just around the corner! As the summer heat begins to set in, so does the itch for refreshing cold drinks. If you’re a soon-to-be-mom or a nursing mother, it’s important that you skip the summer booze and stick to mocktails in the months ahead. But that doesn’t mean they still can’t pack a punch! Sit back, relax, and sip on one of these healthy, refreshing mocktails this Summer:

There’s no “right time” to get pregnant - only what’s right for you. At the Cincinnati Birthing Center, we want to make sure that you feel supported and safe no matter where you’re at in your pregnancy. Whether you’re 25 or 35 years old when you find out you're pregnant, there’s helpful advice you can follow that can help you foster a safe, healthy, and happy pregnancy. Here’s what our expert midwives had to say

As we celebrate strong women everywhere this International Women’s Day, I wanted to take a moment to candidly share my motivations behind the Cincinnati Birthing Center with you. They’re deeply rooted in a passion for empowering women to grow.

The national midwifery norms we know today were shaped by hundreds of years worth of history within the U.S. - and they’re pretty skewed from the “norm” of other westernized nations. Around the world, midwives are a commonality. Understanding the current state of midwifery in the US requires an understanding of the industry’s history.

Home births have many commonalities with hospital births, but they also have some distinct differences. Here is glimpse of what our home birthing process typically looks like.