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Time is something every grieving parent wishes they had more of when saying goodbye to their child. Our daughter, Ella Grace, passed away seven weeks after birth due to complications from an infection in September 2015. We felt rushed after she passed away, and we had very little time for our family to come and say goodbye to her.
Thankfully, we’ve been so very blessed by the support we received from our family and friends since Ella’s passing. In June 2017, after fundraising, we were able to open a Butterfly Bereavement Room at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women in their...
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You can’t dispute the evidence – breastfeeding provides profound health benefits to both mother and infant, and as a result, the community at large. However, many wonder how breastfeeding is facilitated once a newborn, too small or sick, requires a lengthy hospital stay. Luckily, Texas Children’s offers a wide array of services and resources to ensure mothers can provide mother’s own milk (MOM) to their infants in our care. As breastmilk-feeding mothers can attest, it definitely takes a lot of effort to express breast milk up to eight times a day....
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It’s important to treat your body well and regularly practice proper hygiene, especially when it’s your time of the month. Thankfully, most of us are lucky enough to have access to clean water and a wide variety of affordable menstrual products. I get a lot of questions regarding hygiene during menses, which helps me identify some of the more common mistakes women are making in the process.
Don’t use scented toilet paper, tampons or pads. These can be very irritating to your skin and might even cause burn-like symptoms. Make...
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In my opinion, one of the greatest privileges health professionals get to experience when they begin their clinical practice is being allowed and brought into the lives of their patients. This is especially true in obstetrics and gynecology. What begins as a relationship between strangers quickly morphs into an intimate and trusting interaction between two individuals – a physician and a patient. The nature of this relationship demands immediate trust, as patients will often unveil their innermost secrets and insecurities, as well as...
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In order to fully understand the extent of my twin story, you’ll need me to start with some of Joshua’s story. I was diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) several years ago, but I was able to conceive Joshua through in-vitro fertilization (IVF) at UTMB. During my pregnancy, I had hyperemesis gravidarum (a severe form of nausea/vomiting) and complete placenta previa. The latter cleared up on its own right before Joshua was born, but the stress from these complications, alongside IVF as a whole, left me not wanting to pursue it again for more children. We left frozen embryos from our IVF cycle,...
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