I am a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG). I have practiced and taught obstetrics and gynecology since 1987, and am currently associate professor on the full-time faculty at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. My writing career started in 2000, when I became director of obstetrics and gynecology for the Dr. Spock Company, a health and parenting multimedia enterprise. In that position, I wrote hundreds of articles for drspock.com, answered scores of “ask our experts” questions on the Internet, and directed pregnancy content for the magazine-style public television series, Parentsense. In 2002, drspock.com was one of only five Internet health sites nominated for a Webby Award, the oscars of cyberspace. While working with the Dr. Spock team, I wrote Dr. Spock’s Pregnancy Guide, published in 2003 by Simon and Schuster and subsequently translated into Bulgarian, Romanian, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Italian, Chinese, and for the UK edition, the Queen’s English. I practice general obstetrics and gynecology with a specialty of pediatric and adolescent gynecology, but I love obstetrics and have a large adult OB practice. I live the Cleveland area with my husband and our teenage son.