No miscarriage is easy, but the doctor can make the difference between acceptance and devastation. For Jen Kulick, owner of the Tattooed Moose, her first miscarriage, when she was about 10 weeks pregnant, was the worst. “She literally made me sit in the waiting room with all the pregnant moms for more than an hour,” […]
Ob/Gyn
What is Perimenopause?
Ugh. Menopause. It’s the often-bemoaned part of aging that all women experience – usually in their early 50s – that signals the end of the body’s ability to reproduce. But it’s not something that happens overnight. In fact, it starts years before in a sort of limbo phase known as perimenopause. That’s right, ladies, if […]
Infertility: Medical Help, Solutions and Options to Overcome Obstacles
Take one look around social media and you would be right to think that everyone around you is at some stage of growing their families. There seems to be pregnancy announcements around every corner – and, in fact, the 2017 Census stated that a baby was going to be born every eight seconds. However, for […]
How Genetic Testing is Changing the Way We Handle Pregnancy
“Over the last five years, the whole landscape has changed,” said Dr. Eugene Chang, an OB/GYN at the Medical University of South Carolina who has watched the proliferation of genetic tests revolutionize how many parents handle pregnancy. “Ten years ago, we did first or second trimester screenings. Now there are non-invasive prenatal tests and self […]
Annual Moms’ Run Funds Lifesaving Support for New Moms
Postpartum Depression: Lifesaving Support for New Moms On December 5, 1999, Ruth Rhoden Craven took her own life – just two-and-a-half months after the birth of her first son. Postpartum depression destroyed a family and left a baby without a mother. Ruth’s family and friends turned their grief into action, creating the Ruth Rhoden Craven […]
The Affects of Endometriosis
Painful Periods. Uncomfortable Pelvic Pain. Infertility. These are just some of the more common symptoms of endometriosis – a condition affecting roughly 5 percent to 10 percent of women around the world. While it’s true that endometriosis can be a leading cause – or symptom, depending on the way you look at it – of […]
Loren B. Frankel MD, Palmetto Women’s Health
Dr. Frankel has been in private practice since 1998, ultimately opening her own practice in Mount Pleasant in 2005. She is the mother of three young children and the wife of a brain surgeon. How does she find time to attend to the patients at her own obstetrics and gynecology practice? “I manipulate things to […]
Eleanor Oakman, MD of Roper St. Francis, OB/GYN
“I wanted to go into medicine from a very young age,” Dr. Eleanor Oakman, MD tells me, explaining that medicine runs in the family. “My grandfather and an aunt are both doctors.” She found it all very interesting and fascinating, so there was no doubt she’d follow in their footsteps. After attending George Washington University’s […]
Birthing a New Generation: An Old Wives’ Tale
It was a different world 40 years ago. There was no home pregnancy test to give you immediate results within days of conceiving. Instead, we waited on the physical manifestations to appear (or not appear, such as the absence of our monthly visitor) and let the doctor make the diagnosis. We donned large tent-like clothes […]
Palmetto Women’s Health: Regain That Spark
Being a woman is complicated. From hormones to pregnancy to weight loss, our bodies are always a work in progress. Helping women through various stages of life is a mission for Dr. Loren Frankel of Palmetto Women’s Health. A mom of three, Dr. Frankel understands the work/life balance. A decade ago, she opened her own […]