Long-time midwife, and Choice Mom, Michelle Brechon can be found through this website.

"Women trying to conceive often forget the importance of taking care of themselves," said Dr. Lee Kao, of San Francisco-based Laurel Fertility Care. "We often see patients who are so focused on caring for everything else that they actually decrease their success by not focusing on themselves first."

We all think we know how our cycle works. Until it's time to time ourselves for the purpose of insemination.

A woman on the discussion board wondered what to pack for delivery at the hospital. Here's what Lily recommended:

I started thinking about becoming a Choice Mom three years ago, when I was 34.

Thanks to partnerships with Choice Mom sponsors, starting in 2011 we will be able to send Welcome packages to new and expecting moms who are delivering or adopting.

A woman on the Choice Mom Facebook group page wondered which kind of childbirthing class she should consider. Your suggestions?

So many of us "wait" to have that first baby until we have a certain amount of money in savings or until school loans are paid off or until we have a bigger house. Whatever the reason, most often those are superficial reasons and if we "wait" for these things to happen, that baby doesn’t come!

Now that I’m getting really close to D-Day (supposedly less than six weeks, which is just totally unimaginable after a lifetime of waiting), I am finding myself more and more irritable rather than excited. I’ve heard that there are women out there who just love being pregnant, that they glow and bond and gain three pounds and have amazing hair. I am not one of those women.

When you are preparing to deliver a child on your own, finding the right pre- and post-partum doula can be vital to a Choice Mom. Listen to this podcast about finding the right one for you. Read more about doulas on this website. And recommend yours here in the comments field.

"Even the most independent or progressive among us didn't play house without at least going through the motions of assigning someone the dad role...Our childhood fairy tale fantasies involved Prince Charming and happily ever after, not donor number 5931...and a brief encounter with a syringe."

While you're waiting to deliver, listen to this 13-minute interview with Dr. Charles Sims about the benefits of cord blood banking.

It's hard to find baby books that don't have the obligatory "how I met your dad" and two-sided family tree chart to fill in. But there are options. Here are some of them.