What You Need to Know About Taking Medications while You're Pregnant

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How to Eat When You're Pregnant | Pregnancy
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How to Eat When You're Pregnant
Exercises that Help You Deliver Easily and Get Your Body Back Fast | Pregnancy
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Exercises that Help You Deliver Easily and Get Your Body Back Fast
What You Need to Know About Taking Medications while You're Pregnant | Pregnancy
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What You Need to Know About Taking Medications while You're Pregnant
What You Need to Know About Spotting | Pregnancy
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What You Need to Know About Spotting
How to Handle a History of Childhood Trauma or Sexual Abuse | Pregnancy
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How to Handle a History of Childhood Trauma or Sexual Abuse
Sex during Pregnancy FAQs | Pregnancy
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Sex during Pregnancy FAQs
Is a Little Drinking When Pregnant Safe? | Pregnancy
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Is a Little Drinking When Pregnant Safe?
Belly Expansion FAQs | Pregnancy
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Belly Expansion FAQs
How to Bond with Your Baby during Pregnancy | Pregnancy
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How to Bond with Your Baby during Pregnancy
Miscarriage FAQs | Pregnancy
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Miscarriage FAQs
What You Need to Know about Teen Pregnancy | Pregnancy
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What You Need to Know about Teen Pregnancy
What You Need to Know About Being Pregnant at 35 or Older | Pregnancy
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What You Need to Know About Being Pregnant at 35 or Older
What Happens during Labor | Labor and Delivery
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What Happens during Labor
What No One Tells You about Giving Birth | Labor and Delivery
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What No One Tells You about Giving Birth
How to Create Your Birthing Plan | Labor and Delivery
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How to Create Your Birthing Plan
Who to Have at the Birth | Labor and Delivery
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Who to Have at the Birth
Home Birth FAQs | Labor and Delivery
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Home Birth FAQs
When to Go to the Hospital | Labor and Delivery
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When to Go to the Hospital
How to Have a Natural Birth at a Hospital | Labor and Delivery
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How to Have a Natural Birth at a Hospital
How to Have a Positive Cesarean Birth | Labor and Delivery
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How to Have a Positive Cesarean Birth
Finding the Right Childbirth Class for You | Labor and Delivery
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Finding the Right Childbirth Class for You
Signs and Symptoms that You're in Labor | Labor and Delivery
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Signs and Symptoms that You're in Labor
Braxton Hicks Contractions and How to Tell if Labor is Real | Labor and Delivery
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Braxton Hicks Contractions and How to Tell if Labor is Real
What to Do When Your Water Breaks | Labor and Delivery
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What to Do When Your Water Breaks
When to Call Your Doctor or Midwife | Labor and Delivery
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When to Call Your Doctor or Midwife
Medical Ways to Induce Labor | Labor and Delivery
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Medical Ways to Induce Labor
Natural Ways to Induce Labor | Labor and Delivery
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Natural Ways to Induce Labor
Breathing Tips | Labor and Delivery
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Breathing Tips
Pros and Cons of an Epidural | Labor and Delivery
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Pros and Cons of an Epidural
What You Need to Know about Group B Strep (GBS) | Labor and Delivery
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What You Need to Know about Group B Strep (GBS)
Positions that Help You Handle Pain during Labor | Labor and Delivery
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Positions that Help You Handle Pain during Labor
Natural Birth Delivery FAQs | Labor and Delivery
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Natural Birth Delivery FAQs
Pushing Tips | Labor and Delivery
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Pushing Tips
How to Bond with Your Baby during Birth | Labor and Delivery
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How to Bond with Your Baby during Birth
How to Support Your Partner while She's in Labor | Labor and Delivery
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How to Support Your Partner while She's in Labor
What to Expect after a Vaginal or Cesarean Birth | After Birth
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What to Expect after a Vaginal or Cesarean Birth
Sex after Childbirth FAQs | After Birth
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Sex after Childbirth FAQs
How to Understand Pregnancy with Elizabeth Mangum-Sarach
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How to Understand Pregnancy with Elizabeth Mangum-Sarach
 

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  • Elizabeth Mangum-Sarach

    Elizabeth Mangum-Sarach is the Director of BirthFocus, LLC, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, a Birth Doula Trainer through Dona International, a Labor Support Doula. She has worked as a DONA certified labor support doula since 2004. Elizabeth is the former Director of Maternal Health and Parenting Services at Inwood House, a non-profit that offers services to pregnant and parenting teens, and is responsible for developing their doula and childbirth education programs.