Our very special delivery......Mumbai to UK...
I married late in life at the end of 2008, aged 39. so starting a family straight away was important to me, as I knew my biological clock was ticking. I fell pregnant at the end of 2009, we were so happy that it ad happened but to our devastation, this pregnancy ended in a miscarriage at 8weeks .We were totally heartbroken , but knew that due to my age this was a higher probability for me and not neglected. The following few months were hard , Christmas and the new year passed. But I was determined to carry on and prayed I would fall pregnant again....A year passed by and month after month , disappointment was ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - February 18, 2014 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Pro vaccination campaign – Mumps
There is a lot of #BS talked about the harm vaccines might cause, most of it unproven scaremongering by patient advocates, lawyers, quacks and tabloid journalists. There is almost a religion growing out of the antivax campaign that seems to walk hand-in-hand with conspiracy theory nonsense and the gibberish peddled by those who think governments shouldn’t advise us on what to do when it comes to health, even if it could save lives. Here are a few answers to the antivax brigade.
Boy with mumps – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumps – Mumps is rarely lethal but can cause orchitis in adolescent and adult male...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - February 10, 2014 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Update Satellite — 12-30-2013
More updates on my other blog at DrWhiteCoat.com
North Las Vegas VA Hospital emergency department repeatedly “disrespected and mistreated” a 78 year old diabetic volunteer with more than 5,000 hours of service at local VA facilities. A few weeks after two visits for a colon problem, the patient died in a hospice. When the patient’s friend went to get video of the events from the emergency department, the footage had been erased.
What types of things do Australian emergency departments see on Christmas? Stonefish stings, jet ski accidents, inhaled foreign bodies … not that different from the US, although I had no id...
Source: WhiteCoat's Call Room - December 30, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: WhiteCoat Tags: Healthcare Update Source Type: blogs
7 Tips for Sharing Your Pregnancy with Friends Coping with Infertility
Telling people that you are expecting a new family member is one of the exciting things you get to do when you’re early in your pregnancy. When you announce your pregnancy to family and friends, you expect people to jump up and down, to drench you in love, hoorays, and congratulations.
However, if you have friends or family members that are suffering with infertility, there is a good chance that your pregnancy announcement will be a gigantic, painful blow to them.
It’s not that they are angry with you or not happy for you. But when someone is dealing with infertility, every pregnancy announcement reminds t...
Source: World of Psychology - December 29, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: YourTango Experts Tags: Family Friends General Parenting Women's Issues YourTango early pregnancy Infertility Pregnant sharing pregnancy news sharing that you're pregnant Want Source Type: blogs
4 More Spiritual Tips for Staying Sane Through the Holidays
As the holiday season winds up for its last big week before Christmas, here are a few spiritual tips to help you remember what the season’s all about. This is part two of a two-part article (part one is here).
4. Celebrate your truth.
I have a friend named Wayne who had an awful life. He was maybe 12 years old when, looking around the dinner table, he finally did the math that estranged him from his family.
You see, Wayne had four older brothers, each a year apart, and Wayne was born four years after the last. He knew immediately that he wasn’t supposed to be there; he knew immediately that he was an accident. ...
Source: World of Psychology - December 19, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Howard C. Samuels, PsyD Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Disorders General Holiday Coping Recovery Self-Help Spirituality Substance Abuse Christmas Holidays spiritual tips Stress Source Type: blogs
Our most awaited gift has arrived!
So after our long wait – fertility treatment for 2 years and journey through pregnancy, our bundle of joy arrived earlier this month! Our earlier update (given below) was at the beginning of my second trimester. Everything was going as smooth as one could pray for. But towards the end of second trimester I failed the glucose tolerance test for Gestational Diabetes and with my numbers, history and precious pregnancy I was asked to start insulin immediately. The pricks for testing sugar levels and insulin shots were no joy - but we had no choice but go by the doctor’s advice. Though this bothered us for a while, things f...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - December 2, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Pregnancy Loss & Infertility’s Impact on Your Marriage
Infertility and pregnancy loss are dreaded experiences for any adult hoping to start or expand a family. The emotional consequences can be brutal. The pain seems like it will last forever.
But what often goes unrecognized is the toll that these experiences can take on one’s marriage.
In many instances, spouses grieve the loss differently, creating a sense of distance from one another. One spouse might want to talk openly about the loss, whereas the other spouse wants to avoid all reminders of it. One spouse might want to do something to commemorate the unborn child, while their partner just wants to move on.
In m...
Source: World of Psychology - December 1, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: YourTango Experts Tags: Family General Grief and Loss Relationships YourTango Fertility Fertilization Infertility invitro Marriage Partner Pregnancy pregnancy loss relationsihp Source Type: blogs
Baby after 4 miscarriages - a success story with a difference !
It was the 6th year of my wedding anniversary and we were badly missing being parents. I had gone through the emotional and physical trauma of 4 first trimester miscarriages followed by D&C operations.I was tired of visiting doctors and briefing them about all the miscarriages, blood tests and sonography. All the reports seem to be normal and none of the doctors from Leelavati, Jaslok and several such hospitals could firmly state the cause of our problems. Every doctor wanted to do tests such as hysteroscopy to check if there is any issue. Every doctor dad a different theory and plan. Some of them convinced me ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - November 20, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Chromosomal studies of the fetus after a miscarriage are a waste of money
A miscarriage is a heartbreaking event
and the one thing the patient wants to know is – Why did the miscarriage happen
? Did I do something wrong ? And what can we do to prevent this from happening
again ?
This is one of the reasons why a lot
of doctors will send the fetus ( products of conception, POC) for genetic testing
– either FISH or karyotyping or CGH. These are expensive tests, and I think
many doctors do this as a knee jerk reflex – doctors like doing tests in order
to make a diagnosis , and because patients demand answers . ( Some do it
because they make a lot of money by ordering the test !)
I think ...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - November 8, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Miscarriage: Pregnancy's Most Taboo Topic
An inside look of how miscarriage effected the life of one woman and her views on why miscarriage remains such a taboo topic.Contributor: Jessica EvansPublished: Nov 06, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - November 6, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Grading IVF embryos
The high point of an IVF cycle is the
embryo transfer. Making embryos is the one thing which good IVF labs are good
at doing and most women get emotionally attached to their embryos. They fondly
refer to them as embies, and think of their embryos as their future babies.
This is why many women start crying when they see their embryos in the IVF lab –
especially when they are of textbook quality. This is the moment they have been
waiting for – the climax of their IVF treatment
Of course, not all embryos are going
to be Grade A embryos – and many women get upset when they find their embryos
are Grade B or Grade C. T...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - October 31, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Is It The ‘Baby Blues’ or Something More?
A friend texted me the other morning that a woman she went to high school with was suffering from postpartum depression and hanged herself. The baby was five weeks old.
Extremely upsetting. Tragic. Untimely.
Before I was a parent, I absorbed these stories from a social work perspective. Not enough resources, support groups, coping mechanisms.
Now, as a new mom, there is a part of me that understands the pain, the confusion, the insane hormones.
For most women, pregnancy is a joyful time. Strangers are nicer, food is plentiful and you spend your spare time picking out furniture and baby clothes. For the few days after yo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 23, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Jill Ceder, MSW, JD Tags: Depression Disorders General Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Psychology Women's Issues anxiety Bipolar Disorder Brooklyn Childbirth executive grief Katherine Stone Mother New Mom Obstetrics OCD Postpartum postpar Source Type: blogs
Moving Through A Difficult Anniversary Date
"Anniversary Effect", sometimes called Anniversary Reaction, is defined as a unique set of unsettling feelings, thoughts or memories that occur on the anniversary of a significant experience.Sometimes you can trace the reason why you're feeling sad, irritable or anxious. One look at the calendar and you connect the dots from your current emotional state to the traumatic event. For example, the birthday of someone who's no longer alive, the date of an accident, a natural disaster or a miscarriage, just to name a few.Sometimes finding the Anniversary Effect isn't as easy to trace because the event doesn't have a time-specifi...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - September 11, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: awareness days mental health trauma well-being Source Type: blogs
Embryos, embies and babies
Most IVF patients
get emotional when they see their own embryos. This is the high point of
the IVF treatment, which dramatically shows what
modern reproductive technology can offer today . Patients can actually see their
own embryos, created with their own eggs and their own sperms. This is tangible evidence that the IVF procedure has worked and that they can get pregnant . When doctors transfer the embryos in to the s uterus, most patients are very excited. They know that their treatment is on the right path , and that they are much closer to their goal of having a baby than they have ever been. Patients are understandabl...
Source: The Patient's Doctor - September 10, 2013 Category: Obstetricians and Gynecologists Source Type: blogs
Jack Osbourne Dancing With MS Sparks Heated Conversation
Back in the days of scripted television, The Love Boat was the place to see Hollywood bygones, one-trick ponies and “where-are-they-nows.” Enter un-scripted shows (which are anything but real, though dubbed “reality TV”) and we find a second verse, same as the first. This time we swap a cruise ship for the dance floor and voilà, Dancing With the Stars.
Though dancing is one of the things mentioned when I once asked what we would do on the day after a cure for MS, we don’t talk much about high heels, spangles and dips (other than the old MS two-step). Social media lit up this week, however, when it AB...
Source: Life with MS - September 6, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Trevis Gleason Tags: MS multiple sclerosis awareness comments community Living with MS MS and family ms community MS fatigue MS in the news Source Type: blogs
