Healthy Mama

During American Heart Month, Mercy Health is offering heart risk screening packages at a reduced rate. We plan on sending our husbands for these heart and vascular screenings. They’ll help identify problems before symptoms appear, […]

Mothers become experts when it comes to doctor’s offices. Why? Because we spend plenty of time there. Between appointments for ourselves, our kids, our husbands and sometimes our aging parents, we’ve seen PLENTY of clinics […]

As most of you know, colon cancer can be a very deadly disease if not caught in time for treatment. So in the video below, we asked Dr. Chad Wigington of Mercy Health to talk […]

If you’ve ever had a urinary tract infection (which is not-so-lovingly nicknamed UTI) then you KNOW how painful it is. It’s a serious, drive-you-insane level of pain. And since we’re only a few weeks away […]

Have you read the helpful Healthy Mama posts here at Motherlode, written by Dr. Matthew Steed? Well, he’s a super personable doc and now he’s going to be available to answer your questions about pregnancy-related […]

Dr. Matthew Steed, who writes great Healthy Mama articles here at Motherlode, is hosting a little get-together on Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. at Starbucks on Promenade Road in Rogers. (That’s him in the picture […]

By Kimberly Steed, RN, MNSc. (woman, nurse, mother of 2 and wife of Dr. Steed) Tense and irritable? Crazy appetite? Tight clothes? Feeling depressed? Can’t concentrate? Feel like curling up into a ball and being […]

So many of us have concerns when, despite plenty of “trying,” we’re still not seeing that extra line on the home pregnancy test. But how long is “too long” before conception? What’s the average time […]