Squats are a movement we do in our everyday lives, whether it’s lifting a basket of laundry off the ground, picking a baby up off of their…

image source: Getty Images via Madame Noir Happy Sunday! Today I’ve been thinking about how religion plays a role in women’s sexuality, particularly among religiously conservative black women. I’ve been wondering the last few years if I know more people with vaginal pain than the general population. Growing up in…

Most of my pandemic clinics have been in person, but the occasional working from home gave me time for some leisure reading in pregnancy By Dr. Aldene Zeno There’s the old saying, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but when most of the pregnancy book covers feature white women…

But that doesn’t mean you should be on bedrest, either… Me, six weeks postpartum, finding out that this is STILL the beginning of my recovery By Dr. Aldene Zeno Six weeks is commonly the timeframe many obstetricians advise “pelvic rest” for women after birth, which is the same advice many…

Stock Image, src: Jean Hailes for Women’s Health Irecently had a patient who had been misdiagnosed by two prior surgeons before seeing me. Being elderly, wheelchair dependent, and knowing limited English, I believe that her complaints of urinary leak and pelvic pain were overlooked. She is a primarily Mandarin-speaking woman…

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Rainfall on the bus window en route from Manila to Baguio City, Philippines. In the background — roadside debris, open field and trees, and part of a small market By Aldene Zeno, MD I am amazed how American culture is inundated with messaging to hydrate. It seems that the marketing…

By Aldene Zeno, MD I was at a retreat having lunch at the Christian Medical Student Association circa 2012. I was a medical student at Loyola Chicago, and I believe there were other schools there besides mine. Another student was chatting next to me to one of the faculty. …

By Aldene Zeno, MD Chances are you may have seen the attorney commercials: “Are you suffering from vaginal mesh?” This implant has come under fire over the last decade due to complications such as mesh migrating into other pelvic organs, chronic pelvic pain, infection…the list goes on. And yet, some…