If you’re of a certain age (read: over 30) and are not yet in the relationship, odds are good that more than one person has advised you to “just freeze your eggs.”
Fact: The vast majority of miscarriages are caused by chromosomal abnormalities in the embryo. It's impossible to predict or avoid them—they just happen.
Dr. Callaghan’s presentation focused on the rise of maternal mortality over the past several decades in the United States, specifically among women of color and non-Hispanic Black women.
Sometimes, when Angie Prindle is out with her 7-year-old son, Moses, moms with multiple kids complain to her about their chaotic lives and say, “You’re so lucky you only have one.”
While a healthy and hoped-for pregnancy is a joyous occasion at any age, it is especially in a woman’s late 40s; doctors refer to a woman over the age of 35 as of “advanced maternal age."
Although salaries for U.S. physicians edged higher in 2018, gaps in compensation remained unchanged for females and African Americans, according to Medscape’s latest Physician Compensation Report.
