The Liquid Gold Preemie Donor Milk Bank at Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital helps fill that need. It provides donated human milk to premature and medically fragile newborns until their mothers’ own milk is available.

Most pregnancies go smoothly. But some are more complex: a health condition, a concern on an ultrasound, a history of pregnancy loss, or a diagnosis that affects the baby. In those cases, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, or an MFM, may become part of your care team.

Many parents think a first visit to the gynecologist (GYN) can wait until their child is older. But doctors say it helps to start earlier. Seeing a provider during the teen years can support your child’s health, answer questions and build confidence.

Few life stages come with as much misinformation as menopause. For decades, women have been given conflicting advice from magazines, social media, well-meaning friends and even some clinicians who trained before the research caught up. The result is a swirl of half-truths that can make a normal life transition feel confusing or alarming.

Medically reviewed by Olivia Grubman, MDHearing the words “high-risk pregnancy” can be unsettling. For many expectant parents, the phrase raises immediate questions: What comes next? Who will be involved? Is everything going to be okay?A high-risk designation is your care team’s cue to watch more closely. It means your care team has identified factors thatContinue reading “When Pregnancy Becomes High-Risk: What to Expect from a Perinatal Team”

For decades, gynecologic surgery meant a large abdominal incision, several days in the hospital and weeks of recovery before life returned to normal. Many women put off procedures for that reason, choosing to live with symptoms rather than face the disruption of a traditional operation.