[Post contains spoilers for Dollhouse episode 4, unrelated to the serial plot. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN COMMENTS.] Hey Joss Whedon, Mr Feminist Icon dude, can I have a word in your shell-like? There are fields of endeavour in which the vast majority of the experts are women. Those women possess knowled...

x-posted, sorry if you see this more then once! I've not been happy with my OB office, they make me feel like a number and not a person. I know the check up's only ever take like 5 minutes no matter what office you go to, however they don't even give me time to ask questions before booting me out th...

A rant about finding a good OB-GYN: So we have this great hospital just a few blocks from our house. I was born there, along with all of my siblings, and my boyfriend and I know several people who work there. Perfect, right? Not so much. We asked our friend, one of the Head Nurses there, if she coul...

Today my OB office called me and told me that I tested positive for downs based on the screening tests that they did. I believe she said that there is a 1% chance & that she sees this commonly for women 35 & over that it is an automatic positive. I was wondering if anyone else has gone through this?...

I just watched “The Doctors” on birthing. They called the show “The Alternative Birthing Debate”. I thought I’d live-semi-transcribe it for you. Some of this is quickly paraphrased, but the quoted material is not misquoted in ways (I hope) that misrepresent the speakers...

  Baby Ava has arrived! She came on January 28th, 8 days early. She was 6 pound 3 ounces.  Here is the story. On the 27th, the doctor stripped my membranes (without actually asking). That night, I started to get immense back pain, but I thought it was just the normal pain I'd bee...

I'm due on monday and my doctor is advising that I have a c-section on tuesday.  He seems to be concerned with the fact that I"ve had no contractions yet and the babys head is still very high and hasn't decended.  He mentioned that my baby is probably too big ...

My old doctor just called me to let me know I failed the one hour glucose test by 5 points. My levels were 140 and they weren't supposed to be over 135. She said I had to call to schedule the 3 hour test. I don't want to do the 3 hour test primarily because I know it's going to make me sick. I knew ...

So, after six hours of regular contractions, which were getting closer together and stronger, we made it to the hospital. We walk in, and I get hurried to a room, still contracting. You can even see my entire torso contracting at this point. I'm walking fine, and functioning, cause like I said yeste...

so...i went to my OB today because i noticed a bump on my vaginal area. a lot of cancer runs in my family and what not so i wanted it checked out.she basically *looked* at it, told me it was a pre-cursor form of HPV that would lead to cervical cancer, and while still with my legs up in stirrups, pro...