Doula

I worry sometimes that because I myself have not experienced pregnancy that I might ignore the “obstetrics” portion of this blog. I hope that is not the case because many young women are dealing with pregnancy (before, during, and after). So, to try to balance this blog I am going to write about [...]

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Blog news

Greetings all! I recently received an honor by being invited to be a featured HealthBlogger in the Women’s Health Community at Wellsphere.com. That’s quite exciting to me because I love being able to write a blog that might help someone out in some way. So, thank you all for reading. Being [...]

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Diet and Gender Determination

I have been hearing and reading for some time now about the belief by some that a mother’s diet can help determine the gender of a fetus.  Generally, this possibility is rejected by scientists and physicians alike.  I too reject this notion–in general.  A British study performed in 2008 argues that “you are what your [...]

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Rare Ectopic Pregnancy, again

In the last blog entry I detailed the story of Zahra Aboutalib, a Moroccan woman with a rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy, a lithopedion.  The second incredibly rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy that I will cover happened to an English woman named Jane Ingram.  Jane was a 32 year old woman living in [...]

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Rare Ectopic Pregnancy

Last night The Learning Channel replayed a program that I originally saw about a year ago entitled “Extraordinary Pregnancies.” It told the story of two women and their ‘extraordinary pregnancies’: Zahra in Morocco and Jane in England. The program is the repackaging of two other British programs that aired several years ago. [...]

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Sperm

Sperm may seem an odd choice of subject for a “young woman’s guide to gynecology and obstetrics.”  But it is this last word, obstetrics, that makes sperm a good choice for an entry subject.  Arguably, without sperm, obstetrics would not exist.   This may not always be the case, but for the time being, each human [...]

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History of the IUD

Speaking of Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg, let’s talk about intrauterine devices (IUDs) since Dr. G is recognized as the first developer of the modern IUD.  IUDs, in a crude sense, have existed for an untold number of years.  Women and men have inserted various implements into human and animal uteri to prevent pregnancy for many years.  [...]

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Vaginal Rejuvenation

While there are a myriad of possible gynecological surgeries, which ones do women elect to have performed?  In the past tubal ligation and varying degrees of hysterectomy have been the most popular elective gynecological surgeries.  In the 1990s, though, elective c-sections began to boom.  Recently, however, a growing movement has developed in backlash to the [...]

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Introduction to the Cervix

The word cervix has only recently come to refer almost exclusively to the portion of the uterus that narrows between the vagina and the body of the uterus (corpus uteri). Cervix is from the Latin for “neck” and uterus is from the Latin for “womb.” Thus, the cervix is the neck [...]

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Gender and the OB/GYN

I have often heard small clusters of young women, and sometimes not-as-young women, discussing the issue of whether it is better to have a female gynecologist, a male gynecologist, or if it does not matter at all.  Having been to five gynecologists in my life, 2 male and 3 female, I have my own established [...]

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