Reproductive Health
The Placenta: Surrounding myth
The placenta, as we all know, is the organ that develops in the womb of pregnant women which provides a source of oxygen and nutrients to the growing baby. But what some people don’t know is that it forms in the 4TH MONTH of pregnancy. That’s to say, at the beginning of the second trimester. From that point onwards, it is the live wire of the baby till it is born.
Lockdown and increased sex: Common pregnancy symptoms
For many couples living together since this lockdown started, they’ve probably had more sex in the last two months than they’d had in any two-month period all their lives.
#Twins_From_Different_Fathers
It simply means the fertilization of two or more eggs from the SAME MENSTRUAL CYCLE by sperms from different men. In such cases, the twins would be like half siblings with same mother but different fathers.
This is as opposed to the usual homopaternal superfecundation where the twins have the same father and appear as fraternal twins (of same father).
As we all should know by now, during ovulation,
#Gigantic_Uterine_Fibroids #The_Terror_Of_Black_Young_Women
Most of the time, the fibroids are small and are not causing the woman any problems. Some of them are so “quiet” they are even only picked up on abdominal scan for something else, say pregnancy scan. They are referred to as the ASYMPTOMATIC uterine fibroids.
Such fibroids are the “nice” ones and no one bothers about them.
#Major_Placenta_Previa
A few months ago, right there at the hospital, we nearly lost a 35-weeks-pregnant woman who was tormented by these three monsters.
She was a Gravida 9 Para 8+0 lady (was in her ninth pregnancy, with the delivery of 8) who had Type IV placenta previa and had had three warning bleeds, the latest occurring just three days before she came to see us.
#Rhesus_Isoimmunization_And_Abortion #The_Ignorance #The_Common_Case_Among_Ladies
There are some sexual health decisions that our young girls make – mostly out of fear, ignorance and unpreparedness – which come back and bite them in the ass much later.
As a doctor and sexual health enthusiast, I’ve seen and heard all sorts of world class bullshit, from paternity issues to abortion gone wrong, domestic violence, contraceptive wahala, you name them.
And because of the lectures and efforts we put in at our active XDIFY WhatsApp