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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Doula
Posted in breastfeeding, obstetrics, pregnancy, young women on July 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Vaginismus
Posted in disease, gynecology, pregnancy, sex, surgery, treatment, vagina, young women on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My apologies for an absence! There were finals, work, a brief foray at an ivy league university, and two family emergencies–and my birthday was a week ago. Time marches on. Now I am back to talk about a subject I know quite a bit about–vaginismus.
Vaginismus is a disorder of the muscles in [...]
Blog news
Posted in Internet, gynecology, obstetrics, young women, tagged blogging, health, Internet, women on April 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Fallopian Tubes
Posted in cancer, cervix, disease, fertility, gynecology, hormones, ovary, ovulation, pregnancy, uterus, young women, tagged cilia, disease, ectopic, Fallopian tube, fertilization, ovary, ovluation, ovum, pregnancy, reproduction, uterus on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What springs to mind when Fallopian tubes are mentioned? That they “connect” the ovaries to the uterus which leads finally to the vagina and the outside of the body? Perhaps you think about ectopic pregnancies, as most ectopic pregnancies are indeed “tubal” pregnancies. Whatever you may think of when Fallopian tubes are brought up, they [...]
Health Information Online
Posted in Internet, gynecology, technology, testing, treatment, young women, tagged accuracy, gynecology, information, Internet, technology, websites, young women on February 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As you all may know, I am a master’s student in bioethics. Our curriculum covers a wide array of subjects and I am currently in a public health class learning about health communication campaigns (really quite an interesting subject!). One of the major questions asked by public health communicators now is how reliable is the [...]
Diet and Gender Determination
Posted in fertility, gender, gynecology, hormones, obstetrics, pregnancy, sex, young women on February 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Hormonal Differences
Posted in chemicals, children, gender, gynecology, hormones, pregnancy, uterus, young women, tagged behavior, cheating, fingers, gender, hormones, prenatal, research, science, uterus on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are anything like me and read the medical headlines every day you have probably noticed in the past few weeks a spate of articles about how hormones can affect a person’s social behavior. The first such article was a timely piece, considering the state of the economy, that argues that the length of [...]
Rare Ectopic Pregnancy, again
Posted in fertility, gynecology, hormones, obstetrics, ovulation, placenta, pregnancy, surgery, uterus, young women, tagged birth, fertility, gynecology, obstetrics, ovulation, placenta, pregnancy, surgery, testing, uterus, young women on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Rare Ectopic Pregnancy
Posted in fertility, gynecology, obstetrics, ovary, ovulation, placenta, pregnancy, surgery, testing, treatment, young women, tagged c-setion, childbirth, ectopic, England, lithopedion, Morocco, pregnancy, surgery, TLC on December 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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. [...]
Sperm
Posted in chemicals, fertility, gender, gynecology, obstetrics, ovulation, pregnancy, sex, young women, tagged DNA, fertilization, gynecology, obstetrics, ovum, pregnancy, sperm on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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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