Though you may never have heard of endometriosis, it affects about five million women in America currently. Endometriosis gets its name from the endometrium, which is the uterine lining which your body creates each month to prepare for pregnancy. If you do not get pregnant (and thus an egg does not attach to the uterine […]
Keep reading to learn more about gestational diabetes and how you can manage it through your pregnancy. Where does it come from? Gestational diabetes only happens during pregnancy. Gestational diabetes is diagnosed when you have high blood sugar levels while pregnant, but those levels were normal before you were pregnant. In essence, your placenta makes […]
It’s so funny how sensitive we are about our periods. Who doesn’t remember being self-conscious about their period, so much that they hid tampons up their sleeves as they ran to the bathroom during school? Even though we may feel less worried about hiding our periods, talking about them openly may take a little nudge. […]
When it comes to sexual health, it’s important to understand what’s out there. Preventing and avoiding disease is so important to your health, mentally and physically. After all, it’s much easier to be cautious than to treat and recover from certain communicable diseases. It can take a lot of mental and physical energy to treat […]
If you’re desperate to have a baby, and IVF (In Vitro Fertilization) treatments are looking like the only option to do so, we feel your pain. Conceiving isn’t easy for some of us, and IVF treatments can be expensive and hard on your body. But, did you know that in small sample sizes, acupuncture has […]
When you find out you’re pregnant, it’s sometimes equal parts exciting and overwhelming. Other times, the excitement comes first and it takes a few days for the reality to set in. If there’s a new person coming into the world, and you’re in charge of it, how do you do it? What will you do […]
Even though we’ve been living with them our whole lives, our vaginas can still be a mystery for some of us. Thank outdated ideas about our bodies for some of our ignorance. Instead of blaming the culture, though, why not just take advantage of where you are now and move forward? Learning about your vagina […]
The nice thing about being busy is that days fly by, but suddenly we have an appointment alarm beeping. Thank goodness for calendars on our phones, because they keep us sane. Though we might not skip into our Pap smear appointment, it’s truly one of those tests that we appreciate in our lives. Keep reading […]
There’s nothing more annoying than experiencing pain from a basic bodily function, but that’s life with a UTI (also known as a urinary tract infection). If going to the bathroom is causing you pain, frustration, and dread, then keep reading. Because we have a shorter urethra than men, we have more risk of developing urinary […]
Gone are the days where you only had one choice for birth control. Now, there are so many options that you can really tailor your birth control to your lifestyle and your specific needs. Not so good with remembering to take a pill every day? Not a problem. Trying to work with out-of-control acne? We’ve […]
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