My period flooded into my life when I was 15, and I started birth control pills soon after to control the heaviness. After starting...

There’s been a large anti-OB/Gyn social media presence for a while now. If you spend any time on Instagram or TikTok looking at pregnancy...

I started writing this post when my first daughter - now 2.5 years old - was still an infant. I never got around to finishing it,...

Even for the same person, no two pregnancies, no two births, and no two postpartum experiences are exactly alike. At 6 months postpartum...

Postpartum, everything was going too well. My uterus decided it was time to shake things up and turned against me, which is frankly just...

When it comes to abortion, don't you dare: - suggest that women and girls just "stop being sluts". Someone has to contribute the sperm to...

"How do you feel about inductions?" I've heard some variation of this question several times from patients early in their pregnancies...

TW: (in)fertility, pregnancy Even though it's a medical term with a specific definition, I avoid the word "infertility". It feels very...

Breastfeeding is hard. I knew that before I was pregnant. I've told patients that forever. I didn't necessarily expect a beautiful and...

Some people have an obvious brand that helps you know what they're all about. Maybe it's CrossFit. Maybe it's SciFi. Maybe it's travel....

The timeline of my pregnancy has been the exact timeline of the COVID19 pandemic in my life. My last period was in late February, around...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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