By Hannah Brashers, October 31, 2019 I decided to talk to Kecia Gaither, MD, MPH, FACOG about my experiences. I’d recently read an article that featured Dr. Gaither in which she discussed how hard accessing quality healthcare can be for LGBTQ people. As Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine/Perinatal Services at Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, NYC Health [...]
by Elizabeth Yuko. Oct 24, 2019 Although the vaginal and vulva are two distinct body parts (and don’t trust anyone who tells you otherwise), they “work as a contiguous unit throughout the life cycle,” Dr. Kecia Gaither, MD, OB-GYN and Director of Perinatal Services for NYC Health+Hospitals/Lincoln, tells SheKnows. In other words, these intimate body parts age at [...]
By Lindsay E. Mack, Oct 23, 2019 What's so magic about aspirin? Well, it's still kind of difficult to say. "While there hasn’t been a definitive etiology as to the occurrence of the disorder, it is felt that the manner in which the placenta invades the uterine wall during the early stages of pregnancy is done in [...]
By Suzannah Weiss, Oct 22, 2019 Another potential reason you feel randier during your period could be psychological, OB/GYN Dr. Kecia Gaither tells Bustle. "You don't have to worry about becoming pregnant — so you can be as free and uninhibited as you wish," she explains. (In reality, you can get pregnant on your period, but knowing your chances are lower may [...]
By Kells McPhillips, OCTOBER 21, 2019 Women who are pregnant arguably need the flu shot more than anyone else, says Kecia Gaither, MD, a double board-certified OB/GYN. “In a pregnant woman, the immune system downgrades, and changes to lung function predispose them to getting the flu,” she says. “But when mothers receive the flu shot, they pass some [...]
by Julia Ries on October 21, 2019 “There are no real human studies evaluating [cannabis’s] effect on the maternal fetal [relationship] or with breastfeeding, and really there would be no ethical manner in which to conduct studies,” Dr. Kecia Gaither, OB-GYN, maternal fetal medicine physician, and director of perinatal services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, said. And while [...]
By Christin Perry, October 15, 2019 After you've been induced, Dr. Kecia Gaither, MD, MPH, FACOG, double board-certified in OB/GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director of Perinatal Services at NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, says, "the consistency, dilation, or position of the cervix will give an estimate of how long the process will take. So the induction process [...]
By Marilynn Larkin, October 13, 2019 But Dr. Kecia Gaither, Director of Perinatal Services at NYC Health and Hospitals/Lincoln in Bronx, New York, said in an email to Reuters Health, "I don't find, with physicians within my arena, any reluctance or lack of clarity in how to treat these patients." "There is a quite clear pathway for care to [...]
10/10/2019 “I don’t see a downside to telling pregnant women to take vitamin D,” said Dr. Kecia Gaither, double board-certified physician in OB-GYN and Maternal Fetal Medicine and scientific advisory council member for Organic & Natural Health. “Vitamin D is inexpensive and if just 50% of preterm births could be prevented each year in the United States, [...]
Wednesday, October 9th 2019 The birth control ring is a very safe and effective way to prevent an unwanted pregnancy—if used correctly. “NuvaRing is a small, flexible ring you insert into your vagina. It releases a combination of the hormones estrogen and progestin to prevent pregnancy,” says Kecia Gaither, MD, director of perinatal services at Lincoln [...]
