Mommy Docs

The first and arguably the most important choice in the journey to becoming a mother is picking your health care provider. In an ideal situation, your provider can be the same person who delivers your baby. This isn’t always possible, but it allows for a comfortable consistency throughout the pregnancy. In our experience with the [...]

April is National Infertility Awareness Month. Here are the top ten things to know about fertility. Timing – Many women do not know when they are ovulating or how to predict when they are ovulating.  They also do not understand that the cycle starts on the first day of menstrual bleeding. The first thing to [...]

I have been a physician for 17 years and the thing I like least about what I do is giving a patient bad news. Most of the time when patients come in for a blood test or have a biopsy, the best way to give follow up results is tricky. Most patients do not have [...]

Becoming an OB/GYN certainly wasn’t the easiest road.  The training was rough to say the least – working 80 to 100 hours per week for four years in one of the most challenging fields of medicine.  After residency, things improve somewhat, but the hours are still long with middle-of-the-night phone calls and trips to the [...]

We’re not sure how the celebrities do it.  They make it look so easy to walk the red carpet just a few weeks after delivering a baby, looking more beautiful and toned than ever.  Probably the personal chef to cook the meals, the nanny to watch the baby for 3 to 4 hours per day, [...]

I saw a patient of mine yesterday named Shannon.  I have been her doctor ever since I started my practice more than 12 years ago and I look forward to our annual catch-up sessions.  When we met she was a nervous high-school senior, and I have watched her grow into a confident businesswoman.  She met [...]

Shippensburg University, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania with 8000 students, has been offering emergency contraception in its on-campus vending machines for the last few years.  The medication is available along side condoms and pregnancy tests for $25 in the student health center. In a study of 10,000 college students, more than 77 percent [...]

Paula Deen, the southern chef who offers deep-fried cheesecake and bacon cheeseburger meatloaf on her menu, has admitted that she has been suffering from Type II diabetes for the last three years.  While this probably does not surprise anyone who watches her show on the Food Network, it brings to light the influence of lifestyle [...]

When I was 36, I went through a divorce.  I found myself single for the first time in 15 years and had no idea what my future would hold.  My ex and I had two kids together but I wondered if, one day, I would want to expand my family with someone else.  What if [...]

According to recently released census numbers, a majority of mothers who worked during pregnancy return before the standard 12 weeks of maternity leave, and some way before that. Although 12 weeks is the amount of time allotted by the country’s national family leave law, more than 25 percent are back at work within two months [...]