Metta Dwyer

Many people want the experience of a natural or unmedicated birth, but also feel more comfortable giving birth in a hospital. While having an unmedicated birth in a hospital is certainly possible, it requires some additional planning and preparation. One of the most important things is to choose a hospital with policies that are favorable for an unmedicated birth.

Choosing who to support you at your birth is crucial to creating your best birth experience. You may want only your romantic partner beside you. Or you may want your mother, sisters, aunts, and friends present. Here are some ways to choose who will support you during birth.

For the rest of your life, your birth will remain in your memory. Your experience and your feelings about it in the future will be greatly influenced by the people who are by your side, offering love, support, and encouragement. It's crucial to give careful thought to the identity you wish to embody at birth. How to pick the ideal doula for you is explained here.

Your care provider during your pregnancy and birth will have a huge impact on what your birth looks like and how you feel about it later. Here’s how to choose the right doctor or midwife for you.

Google has partnered with Soula, a Cyprus-based femtech startup, to enhance the support services available for pregnancy and parenting. This collaboration centers on Soula’s application of Google’s medical language model, Med-PaLM, to its AI-assistant. Med-PaLM is a highly sophisticated language model specifically designed to handle medical inquiries. By integrating this technology into its platform, Soula plans to offer comprehensive and reliable support to women in various stages of motherhood

Key Takeaways: Soula.care, an AI-powered maternity care solution, has partnered with Google to utilize MedPaLM 2, a state-of-the-art AI system, for safe communication on pregnancy wellbeing and parenthood topics. With the support of Google’s medically tuned LLM (Longitudinal Learning Model), Soula aims to provide accurate and secure support and education solutions in pregnancy and maternity. The partnership includes $350,000 worth of credits from Google Cloud to finetune the chatbot and explore

Soula.care, an AI-powered maternity care solution for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, has partnered up with Google to become one of the first non-medical health solutions to use Med-PaLM 2 (medical language model) for safe communication on pregnancy wellbeing and parenthood topics with the chatbot.

Postnatal depression – which affects a minority of both mothers and fathers to newborns – is still under-recognised and under-researched, while Britain’s crumbling healthcare system means more people aren’t getting the help they need. Eloise Hendy speaks to many on the frontline fighting for change.

Cyprus-based femtech start-up Soula app has partnered up with Google to provide pregnancy and parenting support. Soula will use the tech giant’s Med-PaLM, a large language model (LLM) designed to generate answers to medical questions, to offer women pregnancy, postpartum and maternity support via its “AI-powered” assistant. The app, previously backed by model Natalia Vodianova, will be able to answer questions on pregnancy and maternity matters and offer information regarding various health-rela