Healthful Woman Podcast
176 Episodes
Healthful Woman podcast is presented by Maternal Fetal Medicine Associates of New York City. The podcast is hosted by and featuring OBGYNs and other healthcare providers and experts in women’s health.
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Aviva's Story, Part 1: The Drive to Have Children – with Aviva
Episode 169
Aviva describes herself as one of the "lucky" people walking around with two rare autoimmune diseases that not only make her pregnancy high-risk, but which could have taken her life before she would have ever met her kids or even got married. The miracles and extraordinary medical professionals t...
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Aviva's Story, Part 2: Unexpected Blessings – with Aviva
Episode 170
Now that Aviva has become pregnant, her journey is really just beginning, with two rare autoimmune disorders making her pregnancy care as unique as anyone could imagine. As an expectant mother, Aviva shares with Dr. Fox how important it was to have people around you who are empathetic, kind, and ...
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Occiput Posterior (OP): A Sunny Side Up Birth – with Dr. Nathan Fox
Episode 171
Does it matter which way a baby comes out of the birth canal, or which way it's facing during a C-section? For people in labor, not necessarily, as many different head positions result in healthy, safe deliveries, although labor times are often longer for people who don't deliver "the normal way....
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Redrop – Yoga: Giving Back – Yoga with Kira Fox
Episode 172
We're featuring a redrop episode for this 4th of July week. We revisit an older discussion about the benefits of Yoga. Dr. Fox interviews his daughter, Kira Fox, who has been a certified yoga instructor since age 15. In this episode, they discuss how she started yoga, what it’s like to be an inst...
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Fifty Years of Taking Care of Patients and Teaching – with Dr. Jacob Fox
Episode 173
In today's episode, we'll meet Dr. Nathan Fox's father, Dr. Jacob Fox, a recently retired neurologist who has served patients for over 50 years. As the medical field began to identify and apply terminology to Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline, Dr. Jacob Fox transitioned his private practi...
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Memory loss, Neurocognitive Decline, and Dementia – with Dr. Jacob Fox
Episode 174
Dr. Nathan Fox continues his conversation with his father, Dr. Jacob Fox, as they define terms around memory loss and dementia to help people understand the factors that put people at risk for cognitive decline. Cognitive decline affects everyone differently, and neurologists have come a long way...
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Colitis and Fetal Growth Restriction – Zehava's Story
Episode 175
So much of caring for patients with chronic conditions that can interfere with pregnancy and childbirth is personal, which is why today we talk with Zehava, a listener of the podcast, who shares her personal journey through pregnancy with ulcerative cholitis, in the midst of COVID protocols in ho...
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CVS and Amniocentesis, Part 1 – with Dr. Tamar Goldwaser
Episode 176
It's always great to talk with MFM's geneticist, Dr. Tamar Goldwaser, to learn about the fastest growing area of study in healthcare, genetics. In part one of this episode, Dr. Fox asks Dr. Goldwaser to describe the differences in genetic and prenatal tests that can be performed to learn more abo...