Throughout the day today, we will be featuring posts about our experiences as physician-mothers giving birth. As doctors, at least we knew w...

I had it all planned out. I got up that morning and thought, “I’ll have my baby in 2 days.” Such a strange feeling to know when you will del...

Son on his birthday...already beautiful (if you squint) At the end of my second trimester, I was a senior resident and transitioned into the...

When I was 37 weeks pregnant with my second child, we moved one block up the street. The day we moved, my husband flew to London on busines...

Gosh, it's a long time ago now, children are 25 and soon to be 27. By the time I had kids I had finished a very OB-heavy family practice...

Laborious thoughts and sequence of events Part 1: 1) Am I having contractions? It feels like bad menstrual cramps. I don't remember lear...

I was getting desperate while waiting to go into labor for the first time. My due date and come and gone and I certainly wasn’t getting any ...

Several months prior to birth: Friend: "I tried to do labor without the epidural, but eventually I gave in and got one." Me: ...

In the summer of 2003, my husband and I finally decided to dip our toes into the pool of being potential parents. A thought, that had up unt...

The day that my first son was due was also the day that Princess Diana died in France, August 31, 1997. I spent the next week on bed rest cr...

This post is a direct response to RH+'s post last week about her sanity . I commented that I'm jealous, but I think this sentiment ...

“Mommy WHY???Why don’t you have a penis?” Because I’m a girl. “Don’t you want one?" No “Maybe you could buy one?" No “If you eat r...

When the phone rang at 2 am with a first time mom in what sounded like pretty good labor, I wasn't grumpy. They didn't want me to c...

I had to tell a Mom that her son died. He was a grown young man, victim of a freak accident, out of the blue. From what I could glean, Mom...

On, Wednesday, July 30, Mothers in Medicine will be holding our first Topic Day. On that day, we'll be featuring posts all relating to o...