Women’s Health

You did it.  You gave birth to the most beautiful tiny human.  You love this being with all your heart and you wouldn’t change a thing. Well, except maybe the hair loss part.  About two to four months after delivering your bundle of joy, you may notice that your hair is losing some luster. Or…

We’re all familiar with menopause. The time in a menstruating person’s life, when they well, cease to menstruate.  There are endless factors that contribute to when someone stops getting their period. A lesser-known factor is a surgically induced menopause or surgical menopause. While the average age someone reaches menopause is 51, someone much younger may…

HPV, or Human Papillomavirus, seems to be the elusive cousin of the STI conversation. Widely prevalent, and yet totally misunderstood. Conversations about HPV center around immunization, cervical cancer, and everyone’s favorite- pap smears. Yet ask anyone about it, and usually their knowledge around HPV is murky. We’re here to clear up the confusion of some…

It’s now Day 45896 of quarantine and things are starting to get a bit – shall we say – wacky. “Wait a minute, what day is it again?” is literally a total mood right now. Don’t worry, quarantine queens. We’re all on the same page. The stay-at-home orders have only been in place for a…

Being a working mom has never been easy, but thanks to the Coronavirus epidemic, it now has a whole new meaning. While the internet is filled with thousands of advice and ideas on how to kill boredom while in isolation, there are so little stories about so many parents that are “barely staying alive” with…

These days, most women in industrialized countries turn to allopathic medicine and pharmaceuticals for treating and balancing reproductive health care issues. While conventional medicine is important, and has its place, oftentimes nature has remedies that work in a more gentle and harmonious way. Herbalism is an integral piece of most, if not all, traditional forms…

Men and women. These are the options we tend to see when filling out paperwork. These are the options for telling someone what your gender is. There are many people however, who don’t fall into one of these specific categories. For those who fall outside of the “gender binary”, navigating reproductive health care can be…

The last week of every April is World Immunization Week. It’s observed by all member countries of the World Health Organization. Previously, everyone had different public health activities on this topic, but in 2012 it was solidified into one world-wide campaign. The purpose is to recognize that 25 different preventable diseases and illnesses that immunizations…

There’s no doubt that COVID-19 has added stress into our lives, but how is that stress affecting our periods? Follow along as Intimina Gynaecologist Expert, Dr. Shree Datta, answers all of our questions regarding stress-induced menstrual changes and how to deal best with them in self-isolation. Use this time to get to know how your…

Ejaculation is not just for men. A wise sex-positive person such as yourself ought to know that by now. But just because people believe it exists, does not make the female ejaculation any less elusive.  Thus we arrive at squirting. No, it’s not a myth. People do squirt. Often. Some people do it spontaneously, while…