Please green the vaccines. I’m asking as an undecided, expecting mother who already has a child with autism.
Statistics show that I’m 10 times more likely to have another child on the spectrum. Only it’s not that simple. It’s thought environmental factors could trigger autism in an already genetically predisposed baby. My baby.
This leads me to [...]
autism & aspergers
What's a mother to do? The great vaccine debate
pregnancy
Pregnancy, I wasn't expecting this … (Part 3 of 3)
Pregnant? It didn’t seem real after all these years of infertility. My primary-care doctor thought it was ectopic and sent me directly over to the gynecologist’s office. Only the office was closed and I was directed to the emergency room.
I needed to drive to the hospital. The doctor’s words ‘tubal pregnancy’ echoed in my [...]
groovy
Dear Gynecologist, I can't get married every month
My gynecologist is lucky I wasn’t actually experiencing PMS on the day he told me that it didn’t exist.
I had scheduled my yearly appointment with hopes he could help me find some monthly relief. I wasn’t expecting miracles — or my pants to fit . I just wanted to still be married, raising children and [...]
