Foods to Avoid While Breastfeeding

You are what you eat (and drink), right? Your baby is what you eat too. Nutrition is a priority from the time you decide to get pregnant through your pregnancy and breastfeeding. The foods you eat will affect your breast milk, and the baby may express their...

5 Reasons Why Oral Health Is So Important During Pregnancy

  Dental health and prenatal health – do those two things seem unrelated to you?  Today, we realize the body is a complex and holistic system; what happens in one area can have serious positive or negative effects in other areas. This is the case with oral...

Keeping Track of Baby’s Health: Screening Tests

Your labor and delivery team have two priorities at the heart of their services –those are to ensure both you and your baby are safe and healthy. In order to facilitate those goals, we provide all kinds of prenatal tests designed to reduce the risk of pregnancy and...

4 Differences Between a Midwife and a Physician

We love our midwives here at Overlake OB/GYN. They allow us to give the ultimate well-rounded care to our pregnant mothers and their babies. While there was a time when midwives were the only assistance available to women in labor, they quickly faded into the...

Why What You Eat BEFORE You Get Pregnant is So Important

First we were telling you what to eat WHILE you’re pregnant. Now, we’re here to lecture you about what you eat BEFORE you get pregnant. Okay, perhaps “lecture” is a strong word choice, but after the recent studies we’re reading about women’s pre-pregnancy diets and...