By Rev. Megan Lloyd Joiner   As the spring thaw finally comes to my home in New England, I am making preparations for Easter celebrations and Passover Seders. I am watching with baited breath as the daffodils emerge, and I am thinking about the miraculous.    The springtime ...

            It is a new year and we enter it with wishes, resolutions, and expectations about what we will encounter.  One of the toughest things you may have faced last year was a negative pregnancy test or perhaps a miscarriage. I remember taking my ...

by Corey Whelan All eyes are on London for the Summer Olympics, which begin on July 27th. Literally thousands of athletic hopefuls will converge upon the city, with adrenaline running through their veins and a story to tell. Included in the roster of potential Gold Medalists is 25 year-old world ...

by Corey Whelan The world welcomed the birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, on the last day of 2011.  Nine days later we learned that this very public couple had kept a very private secret - the loss of an earlier pregnancy.  Rapper Jay-Z's  latest release, ...

Asherman’s syndrome (AS) can lead infertility in a number of ways. No two cases are identical and it can manifest as infertility according to how and which parts of the reproductive anatomy is affected. AS is characterized by intrauterine adhesions (IUA) and/or fibrosis (non-functional scar ...

by Fred Licciardi, M.D. Today I have answered the more interesting questions over the past few months. What do I think about cervical mucus? This is tricky question. I would not make any treatment plans based on cervical mucus. Some women have “normal” mucus and others have mucus ...

By Corey Whelan  One of the most heartbreaking experiences that a woman can experience is recurrent pregnancy loss, or miscarriage.  Unfortunately, recurrent pregnancy loss is common..  As many as twenty five percent of all pregnancies will end in miscarriage, usually during the ...

By Jamie Schenk DeWitt "For there is no friend like a sister – In calm or stormy weather.” Alexander Muir   Sadly, I have just learned about two couples who suddenly and tragically lost their unborn babies.  Both couples were expecting twin boys and both had undergone IVF ...

by Corey Whelan Today would have marked the 82nd birthday of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  I have always been fascinated with Jackie O – I’ve had two Jackie sightings in my life.  One, on a beach in Negril (1975, wearing a tie dyed tee shirt over a bathing suit) and once on ...

By Fred Licciardi, M.D. Spotting. Really frustrating. Where does it come from? We first look for an anatomical reason (a problem due to some sort of growth that we can see usually with the ultrasound). The most common reason is that there is a polyp inside the uterus. A polyp is a benign ...