Even though births don’t increase with the moon’s cycle (as I showed you in last Sunday’s post), they certainly do increase at different times of the year. An amazing chart (via Huffington Post, but first published by a researcher at Harvard) is below, depicting the most common birthdays of the year. In honor of my […]

Doctors can be very superstitious. I’m not one of them. I don’t think saying “I hope there’s not a lot of traffic” predisposes me to bumper-to-bumper worst-of-LA congestion all the way home. I don’t think saying out loud “I hope I don’t get paged during dinner” means I should just order it all to go. […]

We’ve all seen those super pregnant women getting on an airplane. Even I hope (and I’m trained to know what to do!) that no problems will arise. I get asked this pretty often, so I’m sure you will ask me sometime soon too – What are the issues with air travel during pregnancy? First of […]

I love the mornings without commitments. No work, no meetings, no brunches. Just my pajamas, the couch, and a big cup of coffee. It just feels so good. Then the little buzz kicks in and off I go. Who would want to give this up during pregnancy? I can’t just talk about coffee, because the […]

(Yes, it’s as interesting in real life. See it at the Getty Villa) I love when little statistics pop out at me when I am reading medical journals. My most recent experience: in one study, post partum women were instructed to abstain from sexual intercourse until 6 weeks post partum. Of these women, 45% had […]

Today my interesting piece of info comes via the National Health Statistics Reports about intended and unintended pregnancies in the United States. The report was released last week, showing “trends since 1982 in whether a woman wanted to get pregnant just before the pregnancy occurred.” A more obvious title would be: “did you really mean […]

If a question like this comes up twice in one week, it’s a sign. First, my brother … recently single and “ready to mingle”. I gently remind him to use condoms, but more importantly, make smart choices. He asks me “but if you use condoms you can’t get STDs, right?” Second, watching reruns of the […]

Let’s dig a little into this placenta face cream business. It was the newest sensation many years ago, when Tyra Banks called out Eva Longoria for using some version of it to keep her skin fresh. It was her “anti-aging secret” (I’m using quotes here because there is no such product that literally stops you […]

I find something to remind me of obgyn wherever I travel …

What’s Your Plan B? Emergency Contraception and your options if you find yourself unintentionally … well, without contraception. I spend a lot of time talking about wanting to get pregnant, but there are plenty of us who don’t want to be. To say this sizable group is freaked out by the thought of unprotected sex […]