What: A healthcare consultant dedicatedly tracked her time during the first year of her baby’s life. The result? Some incredible information on just how much time and effort it takes to raise a baby. (Plus other helpful observations – like how often her baby got sick after starting daycare.)
Why it matters: We live in a country that seems to think having a newborn is something you can do in addition to fulltime work.
Source: Motherly
An analysis of over 18,000 adults found that signs of sleep apnea are correlated with a higher chance of having dementia, especially among women.
An essay from Rachel Manteuffel on her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment that manages to be funny while also tackling the wrenching choice to have chemotherapy or not after a mastectomy.
Sharing the stories of women who have had fibroids removed without pain medication or endometriosis symptoms ignored for years.
Kidney disease in women has nearly tripled in the past 30 years, with type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure as some of the leading causes.
Josseli Barnica was excited to be pregnant with her second child but suffered a miscarriage at 17 weeks. Instead of helping the miscarriage progress, doctors let her suffer for 40 hours because her fetus still had a heartbeat.
The head of Donald Trump’s transition team was on CNN last night, and he spent a lot time praising RFK Jr.’s debunked theories that childhood vaccines cause autism.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is concerned about low fertility rates in the country, a hobby horse he shares with billionaire Elon Musk and Trump VP candidate JD Vance.
At one point during the campaign RFK Jr. backed a national abortion ban, and he regularly spreads debunked conspiracies about childhood vaccines.
Last year, the same agency got fierce criticism for saying menopausal woman should get talk therapy
A deep dive on the queen of menopause, Dr. Mary Claire Haver, and her push to get more women treatment for menopause symptoms.
MAGA might dismiss this as a troll, but it’s always a joke until it’s not.
One organization got requests for 5,000 pills in less than 12 hours. They typically ship 9,000 pills in an entire month.
A study looks at which birthing position (i.e. lying down, standing up) women prefer most in labor, measured in part by which women report the highest levels of satisfaction with their labor.
Eliza Barclay has a reported essay on her experience with several muscle injuries in her 40s
70% did not associate using marijuana with any negative side effects, even though it can be associated with preterm labor and low birth weight
While around 80% of Medicaid patients paid nothing for labor and delivery, 60% of people on commercial insurance paid $1,000 or more out of pocket.
Combing through the data to explain why most late term abortions happen (hint: it’s fetal anomalies and not convenience.)
A deep dive on drinking and examining why people reacted far more swiftly to the news that smoking causes cancer than they have for alcohol—especially breast cancer.
This is a story that captures the moral challenges and nuance that arise when you mix the law and pregnancy.
There were millions of people who voted against abortion bans *and* FOR the man who put those bans in motion.