Our fertility journey began when I manually removed my IUD on my living room floor while on the phone with my husband. I think that sente...

Over the past few days, healthcare workers across the country have gathered in peaceful protest to show support for and solidarity with t...

TW: sexual assault I read Malcolm Gladwell's "Talking to Strangers" last week, which is about the assumptions we use to create our percep...

Essentially everyone is having a hard time right now. We all have unique circumstances and differing ways in which the COVID19 pandemic i...

Unfortunately one of the biggest themes I've noticed as the COVID-19 pandemic has evolved is selfishness. Reports that testing availabili...

Feeling romantic this Valentine's Day? Here are some gynecology love poems to get you into the spirit. Roses smell nice Violets too, I as...

It can be hard enough to decide on the right method of birth control for you without having to sort through bad information. Let's talk a...

On Oprah's 2020 Vision tour, Lady Gaga recently spoke candidly about her history of rape and subsequent PTSD. It is so difficult to be vu...

The issue of period poverty is becoming increasingly recognized, but improvement has been slow. Period poverty - the lack of access to us...

This post will be short and sweet, but I just wanted to get a simple message out there. I won a thing! This past week, I had the honor of...

Earlier this week, a patient told me she had been experiencing pelvic pain. As I gathered more information, I asked her if she had had di...

There are a few reasons that I ultimately chose OB/Gyn as my medical specialty, with an important piece being that both sides of my famil...

People in the OB world love to make jokes about Labor Day, so I figured I'd better write about something related to labor today. Let's ta...

An overarching theme I've noticed as an OB/Gyn is that people LOVE to feel like they know what's best for other people's uteruses. No mat...

I always find it interesting to see the broad range of thoughts and desires that patients have. This is very apparent in prenatal care, a...

A recent study showed that 1 in 6 people who had babies in the United States believed they were mistreated during labor and delivery (htt...

You guys, we need to talk about pap smears. I’m finding that way too many people don’t know what a pap smear is and isn’t or what it does...

Yesterday was the 54th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Griswold v Connecticut that allowed access to contraception under the...

Six weeks of pregnancy is a cutoff based on when embryonic cardiac activity can often be detected. This electrical cardiac activity, how...