Pregnancy

Traveling during pregnancy is usually as safe as traveling when you're not pregnant, but... There are some potential risks to weigh for you and your growing family. The official medical statement is that in the absence of known complications (such as a risk for pre-term delivery, like with twins, or existing respiratory or heart disease), pregnant women are good to go (I may … [Read more...] about Indulging the travel bug during pregnancy

Is your healthy glow of pregnancy fading—or have you even experienced one yet? It was recently the longest day of the year, and pregnancy, no matter what season it is, can sometimes feel like the longest nine months of your life! I’ve seen thousand of pregnant patients in my clinic, and oddly, none of them have described themselves as glowing. Yet, it is the favored way to talk … [Read more...] about Demystifying the myth of the glowing pregnancy

Leaving your child in the care of another person can be an emotional event in a parent's life, but there are steps you can take to make sure you pick somebody you can trust with your child. Once you've made the decision to bring a nanny into your home, do your homework and bring in the right person with these rules for hiring a nanny. Pregnancy Magazine's rules for hiring a … [Read more...] about 8 basic rules for hiring a nanny

UH-OH. That was the title of one of the emails I saw as soon as I got to my office yesterday. One of my patients had just found out that she was pregnant, for the fourth time, and she and her husband were already parenting three young children. The third of whom had also been relatively unplanned. About an hour later, I got a call from another patient. Same issue, this time an … [Read more...] about Coping with a “whoops” pregnancy