This isn’t the way I had wanted it to be. When I met and married my husband I had envisioned a relationship with my mother in law that would...

I walk by the closed double doors and frosty windows of the ICU. You’re lying in there, intubated. It feels weird to go to work now. I can...

And then she said, “Wait what?”     As a mother in medicine, are you engaging in mindfulness, or are you a multi-tasker?   Perhaps tha...

Hi! I am so excited to join this community. I have been following since applying to medical school 6 years ago and now, med school and 2 kid...

There was a heartbeat. I saw it on the ultrasound, but I knew immediately something wasn’t quite right. Was it too slow? Yes, the ultrasoun...

Ingenious idea, I thought! Youtube , my trusty friend, came through yet again with a genius how-to video to answer some mundane ques...

One of my mother's cousins died yesterday. I hadn't seen in her a long time - there's a fair amount of distance in my family, ...

This year both my children have their own Valentines to congratulate. I was eating breakfast at  a hotel when one lady approached and asked ...

SCENE:  just past bedtime;  kids in our bedroom Husband [pediatric researcher]: "Time for bed." Daughter: no movement, k...

This blog is about mothers in medicine, but most centrally it is about mothers.  I considered many times over the past few weeks telling KC ...

Genmedmom here. In my practice, there are two kinds of doctors. There are those who don't display even one personal photo in their exa...

My mother, not in medicine, and this mother in medicine, went to have a biopsy.   Her biopsy.   By a surgeon.   I am not a surgeon.   No...

This was left in our comments section. We think it is worth sharing. Being the 18-year-old daughter of an OB-GYN about to leave for colle...

I'm in a somewhat unique position in that not only am I a doctor-in-training with a daughter, but I am also the daughter of a former doc...

Although their first early utterances often sound more like " Da Da Da Da " rather than "Mommy, Can I Have More Breastmilk...