Tag: Pregnancy

This is it. Just a few short (endless) days or weeks left of my last pregnancy. These are the last baby kicks that I’ll feel...

Ahh, pregnancy. Such a magical, mystical, amazing time, right? Well, yes…and also a very emphatic NO. Some lucky women seem to channel Angelina Jolie...

Ashley Smalley, MS, RD, LD, Dietician, Mercy Hospital When you're pregnant, you need to eat the right foods. After all, you're supporting a growing life. During pregnancy...

Preeclampsia is a high blood pressure disorder in pregnancy that affects as many as 500,000 pregnancies in the United States each year. Yet, many...

October 15th is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day.  Today is the day we stop, quiet ourselves for a moment, and remember these little...

I have 3 main roles in my life: mother, wife, and scientist.  Believe it or not, my career as a researcher in the Department...

I'll be the first to say it: planning a pregnancy is not easy.  Our journey of “planning to plan” started three years ago, when...

I am not a mom. Nor do I play one on TV. I did, however, write a book about one. Her name was Shelly...

I know a lot about the baby growing in my belly, but not the gender. I know he (or she) was fertilized on September...

Prior to my own pregnancy, I was openly vocal about how I thought my friends that didn't find out the gender of their babies...