My private desk is at one end of my office suite and our blood test lab is at the other end. So it would take a pretty loud noise to travel the distance. This morning, my door was open and I heard a distant happy group-scream coming from that direction. My office manager, whose desk [...]
Visualizing childbirth
December 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Although I haven’t actually delivered a baby in the past 8 years, I did deliver over a thousand during my years as a medical student and OB/Gyn resident. Even so, it wasn’t until I saw this computer simulation that I gained a better understanding of the dynamics of cervical dilatation and childbirth. Watch and be [...]
Making the right decisions regarding your fertility
December 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
If it is your wish is to be a parent, the choices you make today will affect the odds of you actually having a little one in your home one year from now. The concept of our decisions affecting our future is true of anything in life. However, in difficult matters such as infertility, it [...]
Why we love having babies
December 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment
People want babies. That’s what keeps my practice busy. But the reason for this is not as obvious as you would think. There are two different schools of thought concerning why we behave the way we do. One extreme viewpoint is that everything is LEARNED, meaning that we think the way we do because of [...]
Bedrest and trying to conceive
December 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
One very sweet new patient came to me with a tearful story of her two-year struggle with infertility. After she had failed to conceive in her first year of marriage, her well-intentioned mother-in-law stepped in to offer some "advice". The mother-in-law was convinced that this patient was failing to get pregnant because she was not [...]
Play hard, work hard
December 2, 2007 By Leave a Comment
One phrase which has grown trite is the motto "Work hard, Play hard". I hear it often from my high-achiever friends. There are several nuances to the interpretation of this phrase. The most obvious one is that of balance, making sure after your tough 40-hour week living in your cubicle that you take that Mediterranean [...]
