Morning Sickness
If you suffer from motion sickness, you’ll know that horrible, queasy feeling that doesn’t go away until you stop moving. Morning sickness is just like that – but there’s no opportunity to stop! In...
Category: Women Health
Losing Your Baby
From the earliest beginnings of your pregnancy, you probably felt that the fetus was an integral part of yourself. This instinctive response to pregnancy means that miscarriage or stillbirth can be devastating. Miscarriage is...
Why Age Matters
Fertility and aging You were born with your life supply of eggs already in place – usually about two million of them. However, from the moment you were born these eggs began to die,...
Health Plan for A Healthier Pregnancy
Manage Your Weight A certain amount of body fat is vital to maintain your menstrual cycle. If you dip under that amount and lose too much weight, this can disrupt hormonal balance and stop...
Pre-conception Care
In suggesting a three-month period of pre-conception care, the aim is to encourage you to look at all the different aspects of your lifestyle, such as your diet (including the vitamins and supplements you...
How to Pump Your Milk
Pumping milk is when you squeeze milk from your breasts by hand or by a pump, store it, and save it in a container so you can feed your baby later. It’s a great...
Breastfeeding
Doctors, midwives, and even manufacturers of baby formula agree that breastfeeding is best for both you and your new baby. For this reason, I encourage you to give it a try. No sooner has...
Hair Loss
Your hair follicles need estrogen to function properly and for your hair to grow. As estrogen levels fall during menopause, you may find tat you have increasingly regular bad-hair days. A gradual loss or...
Period Pain
Known medically as dysmenorrheal, period pain is caused by substances called prostaglandins. Many prostaglandins are healthy, but some are unhealthy and can increase your sensitivity to pain. Around ten percent of the women who...
Surgical Treatments for Fibroids
The most dramatic method of treating fibroids is surgery. However, before you allow your doctor to steer you down this route, please read the information on each of the possible surgical techniques. Make an...
Your Ovaries
They may be only the size of almonds, but your ovaries are powerful organs that churn out estrogen, progesterone – the hormones that are instrumental in regulating your fertility – and also testosterone. Through...
Conception, pregnancy, and birth
The decision to try for a baby can be a hugely exciting one, filled with the magic of creating new life. However, for many, it can also be a time of great uncertainty. This...
Yeast Infections
Also known as candidiasis and thrush, vaginal yeast infections occur in an estimated 75 percent of all women at some point in their lives. They’re probably among the most common infections being asked to...
Your Uterus
The uterus’s impact on “womanhood” is perhaps greater than that of any other organ. From your first period to pregnancy and menopause, life constantly reminds you of this most significant part of yourself. As...
Breast Problems
Over the course of your menstrual cycle, it’s completely normal and natural that changes take place in your breast tissue. This is your body preparing for the possibility that you’ll conceive. Many breast problems...
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
Every month, follicles grow on a woman’s ovaries. When the follicles don’t develop properly they can form cysts on the ovaries’ surfaces, which, when accompanied by hormonal imbalance, can lead to PCOS. In a...
Freezing Breast Tumors
What are benign breast tumors? Dr. Bedi: When a patient has a lump in the breast, it could be benign, malignant and several other things in between. Probably about 80 percent to 90 percent...
Benign Breast Clinic
For years women have been told to thank their lucky stars if a lump in the breast isn’t cancerous, but benign. Few treatments have been offered to ease the pain of Benign Breast Disease....
Ending Ectopic Pregnancy
Researchers say one out of every 100 pregnancies is ectopic. That’s when the egg grows outside the womb. Surgery is usually required, but now doctors believe they have a better, easier way. Gerri counts...
Emergency Contraception: Now Available for Everyone – Did you know it always was?
The l960s brought us birth control pills, giving millions of women the power to decide if and when they wished to become pregnant. Over the years, it was discovered these same combination pills of...
Ovarian Cysts – Diagnosis
Pelvic examination The first thing your doctor will do to diagnose whether or not you have ovarian cysts will be to give you a combined internal and external pelvic examination. To do this, he...
Ovarian Cysts
Not to be confused with the unruptured follicles that occur in polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), ovarian cysts are fluid-filled sacs that form in or one your ovaries and may be benign or malignant. For...
Hormones Help Prevent Atherosclerosis
It is a confusing question for many postmenopausal women, whether or not to take estrogen replacement therapy. There are reported benefits and downfalls to the use of hormones. A new study finds women with...
No More Morning Sickness
Pregnancy is a time when women are supposed to have that “glow.” However, if you suffer from morning sickness, the nausea and vomiting can make you feel anything but radiant. For those who haven’t...
digg Preventing Birth Defects
There are nearly 3,000 pregnancies each year in the United States where babies have birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTD). Hispanic women have the highest rate of...
Diet for Premenstrual Syndrome PMS
If you want to eliminate PMS, the most important thing you can do is to follow the hormone-balancing diet, and, in particular, take steps to balance your blood sugar. This means cutting out refined...
Burn Away Hair
Doctors say it’s non-invasive, quicker than a laser and less painful than the average hair removal technique. It’s called the epilight system. The new device is a customized approach to an age-old problem —...
Hormonal Headaches
16-million Americans suffer from migraine headaches so intense they can’t function at home or work. 75-percent are women. Researchers believe they finally understand the root of the migraine problem. Three years ago, Patricia suffered...
PMS and Conventional Treatments
While the causes of PMS still evade us, there are several circumstances that we know seem to predispose women to the condition. So, you’re more likely to suffer from PMS if you’re between the...
Flower Power
Gardening has long been a popular way for many people to relax and ease the stresses of the day, but did you know it has even more benefits for people who are physically or...