Healthful Woman Podcast

Dr. Melka joins Dr. Fox on Healthful Woman to explain what women should do when they first find out they’re pregnant. She covers topics like when they should have their first appointment with an obstetrician, what types of appointments they will need to schedule when to start taking prenatal vitamins or adjusting their diets, and more.

In part two of this two-part episode, Devon returns to share how her son's NICU stay, early health challenges, and a difficult postpartum period unfolded, including her own struggle with postpartum anxiety and the treatment that helped her through it. She reflects on how becoming a mother has reshaped her confidence and self-trust, and shares what she'd tell someone facing a first pregnancy. Dr. Fox and Devon close with a candid conversation about the unpredictable emotional terrain of a second pregnancy after a complicated first.

In this episode of the Healthful Woman Podcast, Devon shares her journey from an early miscarriage through a subsequent pregnancy marked by growing anxiety and a diagnosis of fetal growth restriction that required increasingly close monitoring. She walks through a tense induction and labor, including some frightening moments as her son's heart rate repeatedly dropped, leading up to a dramatic delivery. Dr. Fox adds expert context throughout on the medical reasoning behind key decisions.

Dr. Sara Kostant returns to Healthful Woman to explain what patients can expect in the final 4-6 weeks of their pregnancies. She covers topics like common symptoms, increasingly frequent visits to your obstetrician, and what doctors look out for as labor and delivery grow closer.

This episode of Healthful Woman features Dr. Jaclyn Bonder, associate professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Cornell with expertise in pelvic, pregnant, and postpartum pain.