Gestational Diabetes: How Does It Affect Your Pregnancy?
Gestational diabetes is the name for high blood sugar that appears during pregnancy in a woman with no earlier history of diabetes. And the source? It’s the placenta. The hormones it releases as it grows get in the way of insulin, and once insulin stops working...
Pregnancy After 35: What Really Changes?
Conceiving at 35 or later, the stage doctors call advanced maternal age, does come with a few natural biological changes. It can take longer to conceive, the monitoring becomes more thorough, and a handful of risks tick upward. Yet the outcome is rarely in question....
Fibroid Embolization: Is It Right for You?
Plenty of women get told surgery is the only way out of fibroids. It isn’t. Sitting between “do nothing” and “remove the uterus” is a third option most people never hear about. Doctors call it uterine fibroid embolization, and it shrinks...