The OBservations Podcast

In Part 2 of this two-part episode, family physician and fertility specialist Dr. Marguerite Duane discusses how cycle charting can be used as a tool to help prevent miscarriages.

Dr. Duane, a board-certified family physician, is co-founder and Executive Director of FACTS about Fertility, an organization dedicated to educating medical professionals and students about the science supporting fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs). She serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University and as the Director of the Center for Fertility Awareness Based Education and Research at Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Duane cares for patients via a direct primary care house-calls based practice, MD for Life. She has served on the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Family Medicine Education Consortium.

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In Part 1 of this two-part episode, family physician and fertility specialist Dr. Marguerite Duane discusses the importance of understanding the modifiable risk factors of miscarriage.

Dr. Duane, a board-certified family physician, is co-founder and Executive Director of FACTS about Fertility, an organization dedicated to educating medical professionals and students about the science supporting fertility awareness-based methods (FABMs). She serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University and as the Director of the Center for Fertility Awareness Based Education and Research at Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Duane cares for patients via a direct primary care house-calls based practice, MD for Life. She has served on the board of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Family Medicine Education Consortium.

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Author and AEI Senior Fellow Timothy P. Carney discusses the way in which our society places obstacles in the path of parents hoping to raise a thriving family.

Timothy is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on civil society, family, localism, religion in America, economic competition, and electoral politics. He is concurrently a senior columnist at the Washington Examiner and has been published widely, including in the Atlantic, National Review, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. 

Timothy is also the author of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be 

Read the book: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Unfriendly-Culture-Raising-Harder/dp/006323646X

Follow Timothy's work: https://www.timothypcarney.org/

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With many pro-life advocates and families reticent to undergo prenatal testing and imaging out of fear that abnormal results will simply be used to push them towards induced abortion, pediatric & fetal radiologist Dr. Brandon Brown lays out how prenatal diagnosis may have a role in life-affirming medicine.

Dr. Brown is a pediatric radiologist, working at Riley Hospital for Children at Indiana University Health as the Chief of Fetal and Perinatal Imaging, and formerly as Director of Physician Vitality and Values for Indiana University Health. His clinical work is at the intersection of several areas of medicine as one of the founders of The Fetal Center at Riley Children’s Health, and he is a member of the Departments of Radiology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery, Philosophy and Medical Humanities. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on imaging techniques in high-risk pregnancy, MRI of placental blood flow and its relationship to fetal abnormalities, and perinatal ethics. In 2005, he served as a graduate research fellow for the Indiana University Center for Bioethics. He is currently a member of the Section on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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Jennifer Lahl, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, discusses some under-discussed facts and ethical considerations of gestational surrogacy.

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CBC website: https://cbc-network.org/

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Jennifer Lahl, founder of the Center for Bioethics and Culture, discusses some under-discussed facts and ethical considerations of gestational surrogacy.

Resources: Watch CBC's documentaries on YouTube:    / @cbc-networkorg  

CBC website: https://cbc-network.org/

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The CFB co-hosts discuss the past year's episodes and what's in store for AAPLOG in 2025.

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Dr. Steve Calvin discusses how community birth can bridge gaps in maternity care access, especially for rural women.

Dr. Calvin is board-certified in OB/GYN and Maternal-Fetal Medicine.  He has cared for mothers and babies with the entire range of pregnancy concerns since 1980.  He is a graduate of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, did his OB/GYN residency at the University of Minnesota and his Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona in Tucson.  He practiced full scope MFM with Minnesota Perinatal Physicians for 20 years while serving as a clinical faculty member at the University of Minnesota.  Since early 2024 he has been an Associate Professor at Banner University of Arizona Medical Center in Phoenix.   

 As founder and medical director of the Minnesota Birth Center he strongly supports pregnancy care for low-risk mothers that is provided by nurse midwives in birth centers and hospitals. He believes that health care reform should start where we all did – with pregnancy and birth and that all mothers deserve comprehensive team-based care for a single package price.  To that end he developed the BirthBundle® and is especially focused on improving care for the mothers and babies covered by Medicaid.  In December he will complete an appointed four-year term on the HHS Advisory Committee on Infant and Maternal Mortality.

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Dr. Calvin's out-of-hospital birth center: https://theminnesotabirthcenter.com/
Dr. Calvin's 2023 study, An Alternative Model of Maternity Care for Low-Risk Birth: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37691323/

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In this episode, the second in a series on postpartum care, Denise Roy, RN, IBCLC discusses how she helps women achieve their breastfeeding goals and how medical professionals can help support women's breastfeeding journeys.

Denise is a lactation consultant with 13 years of experience. She also has 15 years of experience as a postpartum nurse, and is the mother of eight and the grandmother of nine children. She currently works with postpartum women in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. She is here to share her thoughts on supporting women’s breastfeeding journeys. Her views may not reflect those of her employer. 

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This is a reupload of Episode 3 of a podcast series that AAPLOG uploaded shortly after the Dobbs v Jackson US Supreme Court decision.

The Post-Roe Review is a limited-series podcast from AAPLOG, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, that offers timely insights on what the overturning of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision means for women’s healthcare.

In an ideologically-charged medical environment in which taking a pro-life stance can cost medical students or residents career opportunities, a current and a former resident discuss their experiences navigating residency as pro-life medical professionals, how they are able to protect their conscience rights, the support they receive from AAPLOG, and more. Former AAPLOG president Dr. Robert Calhoun discusses the embryo adoption program he founded.

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