To better help you, I consulted Dr. Gary Glasser of Atlanta Gynecology and Obstetrics in Decatur, Georgia.
"A lot of the doctors are confused as well, " says Dr. Wulf Utian, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a consultant in obstetrics and gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic.
That daunting statistic is one of the reasons Nadine Katz, senior associate dean, professor and director of medical education in the department of obstetrics, gynecology and women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City, got interested in helping aspiring female med school professors achieve their goals.
That it did -- a team of more than 50 specialists, nurses, therapists and technicians assisted Santiago-Munoz, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology.
This is a very good question, and the guidelines for weight gain during pregnancy were recently updated by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
"It was a truly amazing delivery, " said Dr. Karen Maples, chief of the hospital's obstetrics and gynecology department.
Casey, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Mayo Clinic, gave birth to her two children at age 38 and at 41.
They've successfully lobbied to include breast-feeding issues on the exams for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
This is a very timely subject, as guidelines concerning vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) were updated in August by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
They see themselves as the walking dead, says Dr. Justin Paluku Lussy, head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at HEAL Africa Hospital in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The odds of having two sets of twins at once is about 1 in 70 million, said Dr. Alan Penzias, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School.
"Whether that has anything to do with protection against disease has not been proven, " says Kevin Ault, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Emory University who consults for both Merck and Glaxo.
Samantha Pfeifer, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, says the test is usually used to determine what dose of fertility medicine to use for IVF.
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New mothers may also be reluctant in bed because of physical discomfort or because they have some element of postpartum depression, said Dr. Rini Ratan, assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia University Medical Center.
"In terms of risk with women who are a little bit older and the potential genetic problems the baby may have, we pay closer attention to that for sure, " said Dr. George Macones, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University in St.
While the supposition that men think about sex more than women isn't new, the paper's findings have wider implication for attitudes toward public health and how patients respond to doctors' advice, said Dr. Stacy Tessler Lindau, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and geriatric medicine who spearheaded the research.
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