Healthy Eating During Pregnancy: The Ultimate Guide to Proper Nutrition for You and Your Baby

Eating for two during pregnancy isn’t just about more food—it’s about the right nutrition. Learn how to build a healthy pregnancy diet with essential nutrients, whole foods, and proper hydration for you and your baby.

Preconception Weight and Risk of Childhood Obesity

New research shows that a woman’s pre-pregnancy preconception weight is a better indicator of whether her child will be overweight or obese than her weight during pregnancy is.

20 Things You Probably Don't Know About Making Babies

You may know all the smoothest moves and have pillow talk perfected to the point of poetry but there’s more to making babies than that. Check out these 20 things you probably don’t know.

A Tipped Uterus - Trouble getting pregnant?

The medical term for a 'tipped uterus' is an 'anteverted' (tilt forward) or a 'retroverted uterus' (tilt backwards). Neither rarely if ever is the reason for infertility.

Am I in Perimenopause or Menopause? Ages, Stages, and What’s Happening in Your Body

Wondering if it’s perimenopause or menopause? Learn the key differences in timing, irregular periods, and hormone changes—and take our Menopause Stage Assessment to see where you may be.

Perimenopause and Bone Health: What Women Need to Know Before Menopause Hits

Bone loss often starts during perimenopause, when fluctuating estrogen quietly shifts bone remodeling toward loss—years before menopause, osteoporosis, or fractures show up. Taking action early with screening, strength training, and a science-backed strategy that supports nutrient absorption and the gut–bone axis can help protect long-term bone density at high-risk sites like the hip and spine.

A Simple Guide to Egg Freezing

Many women are now choosing to wait until they are 35 or 40 to start a family. While this may be the best time for a woman to conceive, it is not the best time for the female body to conceive.

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Three Fall Foods Are More Nutritious Than You May Think

From golden to red hues and sweet to tart flavors, apples can please almost any palate. Apples are full of antioxidants which are linked to the prevention and control of gestational diabetes.

Tips for Altering Your Baby’s Sleep Cycle

When you finally bring baby home and fall into a routine, you might notice that his or her cycle seems a bit off. In the womb, babies usually sleep during the day while their mothers are active and wake up at night when their mothers are sleeping.

What Menopause Symptoms Mean: What’s Hormone-Related, What’s Aging, and What Affects Daily Life

Wondering what your menopause symptoms mean? Learn how symptoms can fall into hormone-related changes, age-related changes that hormones may worsen, and quality-of-life issues—and take our Menopause Symptom Assessment

Bone Density Testing in Midlife: When, Why, and What the Results Mean

Bone loss is often silent for years, which is why bone density testing (DXA scan) in midlife—sometimes as early as the mid-40s depending on risk—can help identify osteopenia or early osteoporosis before fractures happen. Understanding your T-score and hip/spine risk early supports a prevention-focused plan (strength training, calcium/vitamin D absorption, inflammation and gut health) to protect long-term mobility and independence.

Toxoplasmosis and Pregnancy

How do I get infected with toxoplasmosis during pregnancy?

More Than 5 Million Men May Suffer from MANopause

Male menopause is commonly referred to as manopause. Though menopause was once thought of as a female change of life, men are noticing changes in their bodies as early as 35 years of age including reduced sex drive and energy. As the body ages, testosterone production slows down causing men to lose a bit of that manliness.

A Father’s Touch Will Warm Your Baby

When my sister had her first child, I was so excited to help care for her, especially since my husband and I weren’t quite to the kid stage yet. I found it very difficult though, when my niece cried.

Why Am I Having Hot Flashes? Menopause Hot Flashes Explained and Treatment Options

Wondering why you’re getting hot flashes or night sweats? Learn what vasomotor symptoms are, why they happen, how long they can last, and the treatment options—from lifestyle strategies and non-hormonal medications to hormone therapy—to help you find an approach that fits.

Why Menopause Accelerates Bone Loss and Why Calcium Alone Isn’t Enough

Menopause-related bone loss isn’t just a calcium problem: falling estrogen accelerates bone breakdown through inflammatory and metabolic pathways, making osteoporosis risk rise fastest at the hip and spine. New research on the gut–bone axis suggests supporting the microbiome (alongside calcium, vitamin D, and exercise) may help preserve bone density during and after menopause.

Adenomyosis

Adenomyosis is a condition in which the tissue lining the uterus, the endometrium, grows through the myometrium (the wall of the uterus).

Breast Tenderness and Menopause

Breast pain and tenderness after ovulation is due to an increase in the hormone progesterone. Breast tenderness during menopause is due to a hormone imbalance.

Do I Need a Bone Density Test After Menopause? Osteoporosis, DEXA Scores, Risks, and What Helps

Wondering if you should worry about bone loss after menopause? Osteoporosis can develop quietly—sometimes the first clue is back pain, a fracture, or a bone density (DEXA) scan—and risk can be higher after early menopause, including surgical removal of the ovaries. Learn what osteoporosis is, how DEXA T-scores classify bone density (normal, osteopenia, osteoporosis), why estrogen loss increases bone turnover, and what helps reduce fracture risk through prevention, screening, and treatment options.

Why Am I Itching After Menopause? Common Vulvar Disorders and When to Get Checked

Vulvar itching after menopause can come from infections, inflammation, or vulvar skin conditions, and new vulvar growths or lesions are often benign but should be evaluated if they persist. Because vulvar cancer is rare but a concern with unexplained symptoms, warning signs like a non-healing ulcer, a bleeding mass, hard nodules, a single postmenopausal lesion, or any rapidly changing or irregularly bordered spot may require prompt evaluation and biopsy.

Age and Female Fertility: New Discoveries

General medical knowledge for the past 50 years has maintained that a woman's fertility drastically declines after age 35. This has caused many women in their late 30's and early 40's to go running to a fertility doctor at the first sign of difficulty conceiving.

Pregnancy After Menopause: Is It Possible?

Can you get pregnant after the change?

Hormones and Endometrial Cancer in Postmenopausal Women

Past studies have proven a direct relationship between obesity and increased risk of endometrial cancer. Researchers from National Cancer Institute and National Institutes of Health recently published the results of the study in the journal Endocrine-Related Cancer.

Is Pumpkin Spice Safe During Pregnancy?

Pumpkin has a range of health benefits but what about pumpkin spice?