Rethinking contraction timers, tools to up-level a water birth, and offerings and podcasts to explore

Dear Reader, Labor. The great unknown. You don't know when it will start and even when it does, you cannot predict the course that it will take. Will it slowly and gently unfold over the course of many hours and feature a slow, controlled pushing stage? Will it rush through you like a freight train and culminate in a sudden expulsion of a baby? Will it require lots of creative thinking and effort to overcome hangups physically or mentally? Or will it be super straight-forward? You don't get...