Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Facts Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is one of the leading causes of female infertility in the United States. While information about PCOS is increasingly more available, healthcare studies have cited that nearly 70% of those...
Are you ready to have a baby? Or, are you preparing to have a baby at some point in the relatively near future? Often, our patients’ lifestyles take a notable swing in the “healthy” direction when they find out they’re pregnant. However, here...
Sex is supposed to be fun, intimate, respectful, exciting, and – most of all – pleasurable. When sex hurts, it is impossible to have a healthy sex life or embrace that part of yourself. Painful or uncomfortable sex shuts down the libido, contributes to...
True or False? This, Not That, Will/Won’t Get You Pregnant What you know (or don’t know) can hurt you if you’re trying to conceive, so we created a Fertility Fact Quiz to test your knowledge (and debunk some misinformation): Sexual positions don’t affect your chances...
Ectopic pregnancies occur in 1 out of every 50 pregnancies, making them more common than we’re comfortable with. In addition, they present a high-risk situation to the mother because they can cause permanent damage to her reproductive tract if the ectopic pregnancy is...
We hear two questions more than the rest, and that tend to stump our patients with regard to their menstrual cycle. They are: – Do you have normal periods? – When was the first day of your last menstrual cycle? For many women, these two questions often...
