by Heather Dillaway | Sep 4, 2013 | Menopause, Perimenopause
Anyone who has ever loved anyone and existed in any kind of intimate relationship, or raised a kid, or negotiated with their parent as their parent ages knows that you can both love someone and also be very frustrated — even feel like hating them — at the...
by Heather Dillaway | Jul 18, 2013 | Books, Girls, Menstruation
I am doing a last minute switch of topic for my blog post this time. I had another post all planned out but I am on a cross-country trip this week and am open to new ideas. I am in South Dakota today (at Wall Drug of all places). I found myself staring at yet one more...
by Heather Dillaway | May 23, 2013 | Health Care, Menopause, Menstruation, New Research, Reproduction
OB-GYNS receive little to no medical training about menopause. Or at least that’s what recent research results show. Results of a web-based survey of 258 OB-GYN residency training directors across the country suggest that about one in five doctors receive any training...
by Heather Dillaway | Apr 24, 2013 | Menopause, Menstruation, Perimenopause
My kids and I read a book about “the last snowflake” a few years ago. The book was a story about how the last snowflake felt as it hit the ground each winter – lonely because his friends were ahead of him and probably melted already, or maybe carefree and floating on...
by Heather Dillaway | Mar 28, 2013 | Menstruation, Philosophy
I’ve been writing about disabled women who engage in reproductive experiences, and have been inspired by some of the ideas in the disability literature and literature on the sociology of the body in the past few weeks. Some scholars of the body argue that we should...
