womens health
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Proactive Fertility Tests: I Confronted My Fears and Went Through the Process for You
Ever wondered what it’s like to get a proactive fertility test and learn about health options like egg-freezing? Here’s a first-hand account.
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How to Predict Ovulation (and Your Period) With an Oura Ring
The human body has a tiny quirk that many of us can live our whole lives without noticing: Body temperature ticks up by about half a degree after you ovulate, and decreases again around when your period begins. If you don’t personally ovulate, you probably don’t care. If you do, this fact can be enormously…
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What to Look For in a Prenatal and Postpartum Fitness Trainer
Staying fit during and after pregnancy is an important part of that whole “giving birth” thing. Regular exercise during pregnancy can help reduce the risk of gestational diabetes as well as the potential you’ll need a C-section, while also mitigating some of the more uncomfortable aspects of growing a tiny human, such as backaches and…
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Period Shorts Are a Safer (and Comfier) Bedtime Alternative to Tampons
Before we had all these different tampon alternatives, teen magazines like Dolly and Girlfriend had me convinced that if I left one in I would get Toxic Shock Syndrome. The minute you start menstruating you hear cautionary tales of young people who left their tampon in for too long ending up in the emergency room.…