Natural Womanhood

Have you ever experienced dryness, burning, or pain during sex and wondered if something is wrong? Particularly if you’re going through the hormonal changes that come with aging, you could be feeling the effects of vaginal atrophy. In fact, nearly one in five women betw...

If we’ve written it once, we’ve written it dozens of times: the birth control pill does not,

If you (or someone you love) have ever sat across from an oncologist and heard the words “we need to start chemotherapy right away,” you know the overwhelming experience of having your feelings, fears, and concerns all rush at you at once. What you may not have been told, in that same difficult appointment, is that the drugs about to save your life might also end y...

“Most women are taught there’s nothing we can do to improve our fertility.” So begins the cover summary for Dr. Natalie Crawford’s new book The Fertility Formula, marketed as a comprehensive manual covering everything from the science of fertility, fertility timing, causes of infertility, and optimizing your fertility with lifestyle interventions and artif...

From a young age, my greatest fear as a woman was to experience the loss of a child, whether before birth or at any age. Having mourned the loss of my miscarried sibling, I could not fathom experiencing that grief as a mother. Early this year, that fear became a reality. What began as the joy and excitement of expecting my first baby soon became unimaginable grief....