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Navigating Nutrition with Nausea and Food Aversions in Pregnancy
Dr. Sterling sits down with Crystal Karges to discuss navigating nutrition in pregnancy when battling nausea and food aversions.
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Back and Pelvic Pain in Pregnancy with Anna Grant, DPT
Dr. Sterling sits down with Anna Grant, DPT to discuss back and pelvic pain in pregnancy.
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Preparing Your Pelvic Floor for Labor with Anna Grant, DPT
Dr. Sterling sits down with Anna Grant, DPT to discuss preparing your pelvic floor for labor.
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Supporting Your Baby’s Motor, Language & Cognitive Development
Dr. Jenicka Engler, neuropsychologist and child development expert, and Dr. Sterling discuss how we can help our babies and children meet their developmental milestones.
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Asthma in Pregnancy: What To Expect
Asthma is a common condition that occurs in 3 to 8 percent of pregnant people. During pregnancy, asthma symptoms may stay the same, improve or worsen. Asthma is associated with certain risks to pregnant people, such as an increased risk of preterm birth, low birth weight and preeclampsia. These risks increase significantly if asthma is…
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Precipitous Birth: What You Should Know About Fast Labor
Precipitous birth is a very rapid progression of labor that occurs when the onset of regular contractions to birth is under 3 hours. It occurs in a small subset of laboring people. For first time birthing people, labor is usually a much slower process (subsequent labors may be faster), and there are many factors that…
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Understanding Placental Abruption: Symptoms, Risks, and What You Need to Know
Placental abruption is one of the scary things that can happen in pregnancy and birth. The good news is it is an uncommon complication. It happens in approx 3 out of 1000 births. What is a placental abruption? Placental abruption (or abruptio placentae) occurs when the placenta detaches from the uterine wall before delivery of…
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Mental Wellness while Breastfeeding
A sit down with our Resident Lactation Consultant, Sabrina, to discuss “Breastfeeding and Partner Relationships: Intimacy and Mental Health.”
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Dehydration in Pregnancy: Symptoms & Prevention
Staying hydrated is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, as well as a healthy pregnancy. It is recommended to drink around 2.5 liters (or ten 8 ounce glasses) of water each day when you are pregnant. Certain pregnancy symptoms, such as nausea, may get in the way of reaching your water goals. Since dehydration…
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Fetal Hiccups: Should You Be Concerned?
Hiccups are involuntary spasms of the diaphragm. Fetal hiccups are very common during pregnancy (usually noticed after 20 weeks) and are a part of normal fetal development. They may be perceived by a pregnant person as small jerky, rhythmic movements. Despite what Dr. Google says, there is no reliable data that an increase in fetal…
