Balancing the needs of mom and baby When Gevony’s appendix ruptured, cancer cells spilled out into the thin sheet of nearby tissue (the peritoneum). Additional treatments would be needed to make sure the cancer didn’t spread. But Gevony’s care team,...
Hey, you... other mom... psssst.... I see you. I see you hiding in your car. The only place you get a few minutes to yourself while your kids are asleep in the backseat. I see you getting drive thru just so you...
I spend a lot of time on social media these days pleading for one thing; empathy. I ask for it when it comes to anything political. I ask for it when it comes to all of those immigration issues....
By 13 months old my daughter understood what “mommy has to go potty” meant and would knowingly walk over to the bathroom door. She spends a lot of time in there with me and we’ve found ways to keep...
AHN Staff Highly Skilled at Performing Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC) Dr. David A. Logan remembers the patient well. Jane was one week from delivering her baby. And she had just learned that the obstetrician overseeing her pregnancy had resigned...
Mother’s Natural Childbirth Dream Comes True with AHN Midwives at Jefferson Hospital Two simple hopes. That’s all Sarah Easton had for her third childbirth experience. “An unmedicated, vaginal birth was absolutely what I was hoping for,” she said. “And that I’d...
For those of you who don't know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month, making it the perfect time to post on a subject that is extremely important to me. According to the CDC, 1 in 5 Americans will experience a...
In many cases, life for a lot of moms is normal, happy, and crazy. They can be #thankful, #blessed, and go into 2018 handling life, work, kids, and make those resolutions to lose weight, spend more time with family,...
While the month of December brings some of my favorite things, it can also bring on a lot of stress and anxiety. Even though this time of year is filled with holiday cheer, festive happenings, and the magic of the...
Springtime means a lot of things – one of them being fresh produce and flowers, from the local Farmers Markets. A great thing about Pittsburgh is there are so many opportunities to still buy local. Between the pop-up farmer’s in...

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