What: Bloomberg looks at the business side of luxury postpartum retreats in the United States, which have expanded from New York City to Washington DC and California. One founder says the $1,000+ per night stays could become more accessible over time, just like fertility treatments.
Why it matters: These stays are only in reach for the wealthiest Americans, but commercial success behind any ideas that new parents need more support could help.
Source: Bloomberg
Erin Hirshberg writes a devastating but beautiful essay on having a stillbirth at 36 weeks
An analysis from the Society for Family Planning found that every month about 8,000 women living in states with strict abortion restrictions got abortion pills via mail by the end of 2023.
Examining the never-ending allure of menstruation being tied to the cycles of the moon.
The Washington Post’s Leana Wen takes on the menopause study that led to millions of menopausal women getting little to no medical treatment for their symptoms.
The Washington Post has more horror stories of women getting turned away from the ER because they are pregnant, and extreme state abortion bans have scared providers.
TikTok is cracking down on creators who focus on weight loss, restricting content about “restrictive diets, ‘using medication or supplements for weight loss or muscle gain,’ or promoting weight loss products” to users who are 18 and up.
A deep dive looks at the use of long-acting contraceptives, such as IUDs and implants.
A new book covers how cardiovascular care for women was nonexistent for decades, starting with Wiliam Osler, the physician who in 1889 created the residency model still in use today.
Mary Claire Haver is an OB-GYN with four million (!!!) followers across social media platforms that she gained by talking about everything menopause.
The Cleveland Clinic launched a “Women’s Comprehensive Health and Research Center,” which aims to help women in midlife get the care they need.
Writer Lisa McCarty tells her arduous, ten-year journey to having two children. It included four embryo transfers and four miscarriages.
Senate Democrats called out Republicans for proposing a federal pregnancy database.
Louisiana’s legislature is considering making the abortion pill medications the same as narcotic drugs, criminalizing the “possession of two medications used to induce abortion without a prescription, with punishments including prison time.”
A deep dive worth spending your time on describing the reporter’s journey getting diagnosed and surgical treatment for endometriosis.
Digging into menopause, and specifically how “the medical field is failing menopausal women.”
A progressive group, Campaign for Accountability, sent letters to state attorneys general in Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington.
Hera Biotech company said they got good interim results from clinical trials of their endometriosis diagnostic tool.
For the second year in a row the number of applicants to residency programs dropped in states that have abortion bans in place.
Nearly 60 percent said they “can just live with” discomfort caused by health issues if they’re not debilitating (!!!)
The AP has the dystopian details on what pregnant women face in America after Roe: “One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to check her in.”