After Chrissy Teigen and John Legend suffered a pregnancy loss in Sept. 2020, the cookbook author and model set out to dispel the stigma behind fertility struggles and infant loss. In partnership ...
Maryann Gates treasures all-girl afternoons at her home. She knows what it's like to lose it all. "You wonder what could have been, or what they would look like, or where they would be now, or what ...
“Your cervix is in danger of effacing. You’ll be tremendously lucky if your baby makes it to 24 weeks.” I was staring at the doctor who had just delivered this news, but I was having trouble ...
When I was pregnant with my second child, I remember sitting in my ob-gyn's office awaiting an ultrasound and peeping at my medical chart on the table next to me. Among the scribbles were the words ...
Khalia Jones, of New Rochelle, said she learned that she had an incompetent cervix when she was pregnant with her son back in 2017. The condition eventually resulted in her being rushed to the ...
Did you know that some people are diagnosed with the term “incompetent cervix?” We have been following Madeleine Michalik on Instagram, who, after her diagnosis, is working to change the term to ...
No need to beat around the bush: Doctors can be confusing. Medical jargon can be daunting. Add in institutionalized, gender-based medical bias and outdated terms that often stigmatize infertility and ...
Did you know that some people are diagnosed with the term “incompetent cervix?” We have been following Madeleine Michalik on Instagram, who, after her diagnosis, is working to change the term to ...
I was born p remature in June 1995, three months earl ier than my due date. The survival rate for being born at 24 weeks was 40% in the 1990s and is now up to over 73%. I spent 105 days in the NICU ...