“My IVF baby turns 12 this week — and having attempted frozen and fresh IVF cycles six years ago, which did not result in pregnancies — I can also hold tenderly the space for those who have heard those words, ‘Only one child?’ Yes. On…
Category: OB/GYN
How reversing Roe v. Wade will affect physicians and patients [PODCAST]
“These changes on the horizon for our country are unlike anything we have ever experienced. We have only experienced an expansion of rights for those who have been denied fair treatment. Going backwards only infringes our ability to pursue life, …
Reproductive and abortion care is health care
It is getting very crowded in my exam room. As a practicing obstetrician, I have counseled women for more than the past 36 years and our conversations have always been private. Suddenly, for the first time in 50 years, judges and politicians are vying …
A choice of of maternal compassion
It was supposed to be a routine 20-week ultrasound appointment. The specialist abruptly knocked and entered. The next few hours of my life went by in choppy, disconnected segments. The specialist said he was sorry. Her bones were not growing properly. …
Infertility treatment’s hidden costs [PODCAST]
“Looking to the future, since I only froze one embryo and my ovary reserve is diminishing, we are hoping to go through another infertility treatment cycle. Although, once again, the medications are once again being denied. Infertility is just lik…
All mothers deserve to give their newborns the best start in life
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD. As leaders in patient safety, anesthesiologists are committed to improving patient care and positively impacting the experiences of expectant mothers to ensure the healt…
The matriarchy is all around us, but I feel it most in the practice of medicine
I have always been a lover of words. Confusingly, I have found myself unable to define words that I would have easily been able to describe a decade ago. Due to a more weighty examination of cultural and social constructs, I am now left scratching my h…
A physician’s infertility story
How ironic the way a young woman’s thoughts and attitudes change. We spend so many years — decades, perhaps — preoccupied by controlling our cycles. For some, it is about cycle control. For others, it is to avoid pregnancy because we …
Roe v. Wade: questions that need to be addressed in the near future
On May 2, 2022, news broke that Roe v. Wade would be overturned according to an initial draft majority opinion released by Politico. In the political economy that we find ourselves in, this news has had the immediate consequence of furthering divisions…
Protecting Black women’s maternal health is urgent
In a world of extremes where we are operating in black and white, living in the gray is where the real work happens of confronting truths of left and right, conservative and liberal, and opening up to varying perspectives that reflect diversity. This i…
