What’s the most common question I get asked in my practice?
Is it, “When will I know I am really in labor?”
That is a very common question, but it’s not the most common.
Is it, “Isn’t there a better way to get a pap smear?”
Again, a favorite, but not the most common question.
Well, I [...]

There are many things they didn’t tell me before I became a mom.
To be fair, I didn’t tell many people I was becoming a mom. I was off at college when I got knocked up, and didn’t tell anyone at home. I was planning on giving her up for adoption. I couldn’t [...]

You’re waiting for Charlie Brown’s Great Pumpkin, aren’t you? But, did you know you it’s not just a movie?  You can read the book, too.  Check out the Mile High Mama’s list of awesome Halloween books you should read – including the Great Pumpkin!
Where is Baby’s Pumpkin by Karen Katz
A cute lift-the-flap book by [...]

I am very thrilled to announce I am featured in the November issue of Woman’s Day, which hit newsstands this week. My understanding was that the magazine would interview me about my favorite Colorado haunts for a travel feature.
What I did not anticipate: They would send me a laundry list of questions and I, in [...]

Saturday. “Halloween with Horses”, an equestrian seasonal celebration, turns the Colorado Horse Park into a Halloween wonderland. See horses of all shapes and sizes dressed up in silly costumes, from miniature dinosaurs to lumbering pirate ships. Guests are encouraged to dress up, too, and explore the farm’s other fall delights: a pumpkin patch, hay rides, [...]

When I buy the kids their Halloween costume, I know that I will get more than one night’s worth of wearing out of it.  Not only will they wear it to school and ask to wear it a load of other times – but little did I know that the costumes would pay off the next [...]

A search for open adoption is scary turns up 91,400 entries. That’s a lot of terror!
What is open adoption? Wikipedia says “Open adoption means that the birth mother and adopted family know who each other are. Even in an open adoption, the birth parents’ legal rights of guardianship are terminated, and [...]

The media and blogosphere are abuzz in the wake of the suicide of Rutgers college freshman Tyler Clementi after his roommate secretly broadcast his encounter with another man.
This is an extreme and tragic example of cyberbullying and it makes me wonder 1) Do the two students who committed the crime have a history of bullying [...]

I felt a little guilty waking the kids up so early on a Sunday. But Denver’s Race for the Cure started at 7:30 a.m. and I figured, if we were all going to do this, then we might as well participate in as much of it as we can. I’d never done a Race for [...]

Fright Fest
Fright Fest at Elitch Gardens runs Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 31. There are family-friendly activities during the day, but after dark, it becomes a scream park of haunted houses, ghouls and zombies. At 1 p.m. Oct. 16 is the Pet Parade Costume Contest benefiting the Denver Dumb Friends League. 2000 Elitch Circle, [...]