GynaeCARE Blogs

  Summary: I literally spent several sleepless nights, leading up to the abortion surgery that I needed to have in early 2011. Over here, I will take you through the main factors that really got me tensed. All my confidence of being a free-spirited, independent, rebel of a girl came crashing down two years back – when I tested positive for pregnancy. I was in the final year of my post-graduate course, had a stable boyfriend (we hitched up this year, in April), and had never been shy of a physically intimate session or two with him. Using protection was not something I was really attentive about though – and the unwanted pregnancy was a direct result. I knew that embryo-removal was a relatively commonplace medical process, but was still mighty apprehensive about the following factors: To tell or not to tell – My mom is my best friend, but I had a notion that, if I informed her about my rash act, she would be unquestionably disappointed. Of course, I had confide...

  Summary: Do you have a young daughter, approaching the age of puberty? If yes, go through the following post – and get an idea of the gynaecological factors that you need to be aware of for her.   As a professional gynaecologist, I am often flustered by the sheer ineptitude and ignorance with which puberty is dealt with in young girls. Confusion among parents is, according to me, one of the chief causes for this – while young ladies also often feel shy to communicate with their parents (yes, even with their moms) about the internal and external changes happening to their body. In the current discourse, I have made an attempt to clear the air about some of the basic gynaecological issues that a young lady would experience during the period of puberty:           i.             Menstruation cycles – As a girl reaches 12-13 years of age, menarche (the onset of her menstruat...