Being a woman can be daunting at times. Even as a fourth year ob/gyn resident, I searched endlessly for answers to basic pregnancy questions. I had been coaching woman on how to be a mother and guiding them though their pregnancies for years, but I still had the feeling that I was missing something. I read countless blogs, books, and daily emails about my growing child. I am not sure if I learned anything through this process but I still continued to search for those answers.
As a doctor in private practice, I would get many of the same questions daily. I am sure that there were many more unasked questions either due to pregnancy brain, apprehension about asking a ‘silly’ question, or just lack of time. With declining reimbursement, the time that we have to spend with our patients is also decreasing. Sometimes the doctor is in and out of your room so quickly that you don’t even have time to pull out your phone to ask all the questions that you’ve spent the last month preparing.
I decided to be an ob/gyn because I love taking care of women, celebrating the new life that they are growing, and educating them on all the changes we go through. After a few years of private practice, I began to get very disillusioned with our current healthcare system and hope to continue to help women through life’s changes with this blog.
My hope is that you can learn through my own mistakes as well as my previous patients. I hope to challenge all the bad medical advice that still exists. I hope to give women the opportunity to ask all the ‘silly’ questions that they are either afraid to ask or do not have the time. Dr. Mom — Ob/Gyn seeks to fill this void that I felt in my pregnancy and offer an alternative to the current publications.
Dr. Mom --- Ob/Gyn 