…with me. One day I found it, hidden in a brown cardboard box – my birth announcement, my parents’ engagement party, and wedding invitations. There was a discrepancy between the…
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Gestation Diabetes Testing in Pregnancy: Should it Be Routine?
…interventions. Her place of birth may be curtailed to only the hospital (i.e. no birthing center, no homebirth). Her labor may be unnecessarily or prematurely induced. Perceptions of her risk…
Herbs in Pregnancy: What’s Safe, What’s Not?
Search this Article Herbs in Pregnancy: Are They Safe? Using Herbs During Pregnancy Herbs to Avoid Herbs for Common Pregnancy Symptoms: An Overview Getting Ready for Birth: Do You Need…
Is Your Child’s Immune System at Risk?
…and increase the risk of problems with immune response. At the time of birth, baby is supposed to be exposed to mom’s microbiome on the way through the birth canal…
The OB Speaking Out on the US Cesarean Rate
…unnecessary cesareans, why he thinks sometimes home birth may the safest place to have a baby, and why we both think moms need to know the truth for their own…
Four Ways to Bust Through Happiness Anxiety (or Stop Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop)
…at the big chances I’ve taken in my life – going to college at 15, birthing my four children at home, applying to medical school at 39, and going to…





