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From your first period to your last, radically better women's health starts here, with YOU at the center.


Aviva Romm MD, Midwife

New! The Mama Pathway

Reclaim Empowered Birth & Motherhood

Reclaim your innate birthing wisdom and navigate your rmama  journey with confidence and support. The Mama Pathway is not your average childbirth education program – it's a robust online education experience where traditional midwifery wisdom & modern medicine meet to help you achieve the empowered birth you deserve.

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Your Whole Health Journey Starts Here: Articles & Podcast

 For solutions that really, finally, let you own your health, from your first period to your last, and a nourished, root cause approached to hormonal health, fertility, pregnancy, new motherhood, and menopause, browse the AvivaHealth library of articles and podcasts to get started on your journey.

Prenatal Vitamins: Do You Need One and How to Choose

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reimagining postpartum

Reclaiming Postpartum: A New (Old) Model of Mama + Baby Care

PMADS

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADS): The Hidden Motherhood Struggle

Jessica Zucker

Normalize It: From Miscarriage to Midlife—Owning Our Stories Without Shame with Jessica Zucker

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Breastfeeding Challenges, Tongue Tie, & Trusting Your Instincts

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Your hormones are far more than just a balancing act.  From period pain to endometriosis, PCOS to fertility problems, miserable menopause symptoms and more a new approach to your hormones starts here. Your hormones are natural, feeling miserable is not. 

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The Replenish Formulary marries my commitment to health equity and ending maternal mortality. while bringing you the high quality products you're looking for, with a  discount that makes your daily nutritional support and supplement needs more affordable. You'll find products for woman’s life cycle needs, common concerns, and children’s health.

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“At least you have a healthy baby.”⁠ ⁠ If “At least you have a healthy baby.”⁠
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If you’ve given birth and felt dismissed by those words, you’re not alone. Because what that sentence really says is: your experience doesn’t matter.⁠
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That your pain, your fear, your body, your voice—all of it is secondary.⁠
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Too often, that one sentence becomes a lid placed over a mother’s trauma. A way to hush her pain and shrink her story. But birth is never “just one day.” It imprints itself into our bodies, our nervous systems, our memories. And for 1 in 3 women in the U.S., that imprint is traumatic.⁠
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For 1 in 6, the symptoms are so severe they qualify for PTSD. Not sadness. Not the “baby blues.” Actual trauma. And still, we’re told to be grateful. To move on. To focus on the baby.⁠
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Birth trauma doesn’t always stem from emergencies or complications. It often stems from how a woman is treated:⁠
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➡️ being ignored⁠
➡️ coerced into decisions⁠
➡️ touched without consent⁠
➡️ stripped of her autonomy⁠
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And the ripple effects can be devastating—impacting bonding, postpartum mental health, and even leading to suicide, the leading cause of maternal death in the U.S.⁠
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So no, “a healthy baby” is not the only outcome that matters.⁠
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The mother matters, too. Her body. Her voice. Her trauma. Her joy. Her healing. She is more than a vessel. She is the center.⁠
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If you’re preparing for birth—or supporting someone who is—you deserve more. You deserve informed, empowered, whole-person care.⁠
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The Mama Pathway is my complete birth prep course, created to change this—to offer education, empowerment, and a path forward for expecting parents and those healing from past births. It’s rooted in 40+ years of experience as a midwife, MD, and mother.⁠
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Because a truly healthy birth means the baby and the mother emerge whole. You deserve that.⁠
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💛  Learn more and enroll at the link in bio.⁠
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If you’ve ever been told “at least you have a healthy baby,” how did that land for you? I’d love to hear your story—or simply hold space for it in the comments below.
In case no one’s told you lately: it’s okay to In case no one’s told you lately: it’s okay to give fewer f*cks.⁠
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This one’s definitely on my list. As I’ve entered the “queen phase” of my life (early menopause), I value my precious time and energy more than ever. And I really don’t have time for anyone/anything) that disrespects or devalues me. I also have no interest in changing who I am to please someone else - anyone in my life gets the whole, real me.⁠
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Yeah, I give a whole lot fewer f*cks about what others think of me, and while I may not always say f*ck off, I have gotten really good at No. No thank you, and hell to the no!⁠
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It’s a gift that comes from getting comfortable with:⁠
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🔥 My power aka ‘calmfidence’ ⁠
🔥 My wants/desires/agency⁠
🔥 My right to have and meet my needs⁠
🔥 My ability to make/negotiate choices best for me⁠
🔥 Radical self-care, self-love, self-respect.⁠
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And none of us should wait until we’re 70 to claim our power.⁠
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It’s not easy - it’s a practice. We’re so deeply engrained to not feel beautiful enough, smart enough, successful enough - to literally filter our lives to meet social norms- rather than feel strong and powerful in our own beautiful uniqueness, never stepping back to look at what’s truly for us and what’s not. It’s an exhausting and impossible quest: we cannot be someone else.⁠
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One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is to say f*ck off to ideas of not being enough, to FOMO, to comparing and despairing, or anything that diminishes or devalues our safety, success, our right to shine, to self-care and alone time, and to take care of our own well-being. ⁠
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Next time you think of not being you, you start ‘shoulding on yourself,’ or might cave to saying yes when you really want to say no - flip that script by giving less f*cks about what someone else thinks. There’s only one authentic you - and we need her! ⁠
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Calmfidence, baby....⁠
Let’s get one thing straight: women are not brok Let’s get one thing straight: women are not broken.⁠
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But the system? That’s another story.⁠
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Too many of us have watched smart, strong women be told their symptoms are “just stress” or “all in their head.” Too many have been prescribed antidepressants for PMS or anxiety that started after the Pill—without a single lab drawn or root cause explored. Too many are rushed into IVF or hysterectomy without ever being given a full picture or real options.⁠
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And the worst part? This isn’t rare. It’s routine.⁠
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The truth is, women’s health has been underfunded, undertaught, and misunderstood for far too long. Even well-meaning doctors are working in a system that was never designed to serve women fully.⁠
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That’s why I created the Women’s Integrative & Functional Medicine Professional Training Program—to equip you with the tools, training, and community to do things differently.⁠
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To lead a new paradigm.⁠
To say enough is enough.⁠
To meet women with respect, evidence-based care, and real answers.⁠
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If you’re a practitioner who’s ready to work at the root, bring together the best of integrative and conventional wisdom, and be a trusted guide through the most important transitions of a woman’s life—this is your invitation.⁠
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🌿 Today is the LAST DAY to save $1500 for the Very Early Bird Special⁠
🌿 Make your deposit by 6/10 to claim your spot⁠
🌿 100% online, self-paced, and newly certified⁠
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You don’t have to wait for permission. This is your moment to help rewrite the story of women’s health—with depth, clarity, and conviction.⁠
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Apply now at the link in bio. Let’s do this.⁠
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#WomensHealth #FunctionalMedicine #RootCauseMedicine #HormoneHealth
I’ve spent decades helping women understand that I’ve spent decades helping women understand that our hormones don’t just “happen” —they respond to how we live.⁠
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And right now, we’re living in ways that pull us out of sync: chronic stress, late nights, skipped meals. Your body isn’t failing—it’s responding.⁠
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That’s the heart of my approach: Hormone Intelligence: that your body is wise and adaptable. When we realign with our deeper rhythms, our hormones follow.⁠
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These these micro-shifts are small but powerful ways to begin to immediately reset your hormones from estrogen and progesterone to cortisol and insulin - which are all connected in the orchestra of your cycles, sleep, metabolism, fertility, menopause experience and more.⁠
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Whether you’re navigating PMS, perimenopause, PCOS, endometriosis, or fertility struggles—this is a phenomenal place to begin.⁠
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Try these (or even one of them to start!)⁠
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☀️ 10 min of morning sunlight to reset cortisol + circadian rhythm⁠
🚶‍♀️ A gentle walk to regulate insulin + lower inflammation⁠
🍳 A protein-rich breakfast to balance blood sugar + support a healthy gut microbiome⁠
(Hint: eat your brekkie near a sunny window and you get two of these in!)⁠
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All of these support hormone health including healthy estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels!⁠
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✨ I’d love to know - which of these micro-shifts feels most doable for you right now? Or if you’ve already been practicing one of these, what changes have you noticed?⁠
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👇 Drop a comment below - I love to hear about your journey, and your experience might inspire someone else on their journey, too.⁠
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Want more guidance? Grab a copy of Hormone Intelligence for a full understanding of your body—and a 6-week plan to reset your hormones from the inside out. 💛⁠
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#HormoneIntelligence #WomensHealth #RootCauseMedicine #PMS #PerimenopauseSupport #PCOS #Endometriosis #FertilitySupport ⁠
 

About Dr. Aviva

Welcome! From periods and birth control, to all things becoming a mama, to your red hot menopause journey – you'll find the ‘no BS' answers you're looking for – rooted in traditional wisdom, supported by the best of conventional medicine, backed by science – and  served up for you with a whole lot of love and zero judgment -ever. 

I'm Dr Aviva, a Yale trained MD and Board Certified Family Physician, Midwife, Herbalist, NYT Best Selling Author, Teacher, and Mama. Please accept this invitation to awaken wild health, reimagine your body, reclaim your hormones and cycles, and to be your most powerful YOU in every stage, at any age. 

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