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My Birth Story
My mom had driven all the way from my hometown in Arizona to be present at the birth of her first grandchild and to help me settle in to motherhood. We were hanging out at her AirBnB, enjoying the air conditioning and each other’s company, when it happened.
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Women’s History Month Spotlight: The Mothers of Gynecology
The “father of gynecology,” J. Marion Sims, is credited with inventing the precursor to the speculum and discovering a method for repairing fistulas in the 1840s. However, his contributions to modern gynecology were only possible due to his torturous experiments on enslaved black women. These brave women—the mothers of gynecology—were voiceless then. But we can…
But first, Pelvic Health. 