As I write this, it's been a week since I got my tubes tied. And it's probably the most freeing thing I've ever done.If there's one thing that, as women, we're socialized to be scared of, it's unwanted pregnancies. We literally have TV shows that shame teenagers for getting pregnant. ...Continue

As a medical student, I remember reading books about the early days of the HIV epidemic and wondering what it was like for doctors to take care of patients who had a new, unknown disease. It seemed to me like it would be frightening for both patients and doctors alike. I didn’t expect that early in

I think it's fair to say that our society is biased when it comes to the reality of what motherhood entails, specifically surrounding giving birth.We've developed an obsession over how awesome babies are, but at the same time, we generally censor the reality of what happens in the process.Let's be

When I tell people a rabbit got me pregnant, I don't mean the fluffy kind. It was eight years ago. Dean and I had been together for nearly 10 years and had decided that we wanted to have children. We'd always used condoms for contraception, so it was basically a case of stop using them and

I was always on the fence about kids, but that changed when my sister had two. Getting to know her boys made me rethink the whole baby thing. While being an aunt is undoubtedly a very different scenario than having your own kids, spending time with her family made me realize how much I wanted