Entries for September 2019

There are a lot of reasons a woman may fear a possible unplanned pregnancy.  Maybe she had unplanned sex, or she was sexually assaulted. Maybe she and her partner got caught up in the moment and didn’t use protection—or their protection failed—and she feels like being pregnant...
I was sitting on a park bench one day, enjoy the warm sunshine on my face when I thought, “I can’t remember when I had my last period.”  Here’s the thing: As a married, twenty-something woman, I was supposed to be stoked about the possibility of being pregnant, right?...
By Suzanne Allert, Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP)   I work with a lot of women, and I’ve noticed how quickly many of them are to take care of everyone else but not themselves. Does that sound like you?   As a certified nurse practitioner who is also a wife and mom, I ...