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Vitamin D: Do I Need the Dropper?
When my daughter went in for her one month checkup, we left with her length, weight, a reassuring list of milestones she had met, and...
May 24, 202310 min read


An upside to nausea? Evolutionary explanations for "morning" sickness
In many ways, I hit the jackpot with my first pregnancy: my energy stayed pretty high the whole time, my knees and hips only ached a...
Mar 1, 202310 min read


What's milk got?
Let me start this particular blog by cutting off at the pass anyone who wants to fit it into the “Mommy Wars” battle over...
Jan 23, 202310 min read


Sperm have more jobs than you might think
In evolutionary biology, there’s a framework that seeks to explain, in part, the “women do all the work” stereotype. In mammals...
Jan 23, 20236 min read


Meet your parasite
I found out about my first little parasite during a completely routine primary care physical. While I’d been off birth control for ...
Jan 23, 20234 min read
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