Midwifery Burn Out
The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of any high-income country and Indiana has the third worst rates of maternal...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jul 15
- 4 min
Somatic Symptom Disorder: The New Hysteria
This may prove to be a rant post that I'll later delete, and I try really hard not to be overly reactive about the gross dysfunction in...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jul 10
- 8 min
Rheumatoid Arthritis or Osteoarthritic Fingers
My grandmother had big knuckles in her fingers, Herberden's nodes, and when I turned thirty, many years before even finding my first grey...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jun 25
- 7 min
Pelvic Pain: Are You Being Heard?
Women's health has long been a specialty focus in my practice, largely become I lean into caring for those who aren't heard, who feel...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jun 23
- 8 min
Acne: Healing Skin from Within
As a teenager, I did get the occasional #pimple, sometimes a few at a time, more often across my forehead or down my nose. It seemed I...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jun 9
- 5 min
Evening Primrose Oil: Not this Midwife
Evening primrose oil is commonly used as an alternative therapy, popular among women's health providers and midwives, and it is rich in...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jun 8
- 5 min
Joint Pain in the Mornings: Osteoarthritis
Aging has its privileges, but one of the reasons it isn't always embraced is because we are more inclined to joint pain, and general...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Jun 8
- 9 min
Painful Menses in Our Youth: Dysmenorrhea
My oldest daughter, now 30 years-old, started her menses when she was crazy young. She was prepared though, not real bothered by it, nor...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- May 28
- 10 min
Otitis Externa: Swimmer's Ear
Oh, I can't believe I haven't written about this before because this little nasty condition plagued my childhood. I remember crying late...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- May 23
- 7 min
Brugada Syndrome: Sudden Cardiac Death
An inherited cardiac syndrome, Brugada syndrome is a condition that predisposes individuals to ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- May 14
- 4 min
Dry Skin Brushing
It's been many years ago now, but a client introduced me to dry brushing and through the years, it's been a practice I've certainly...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- May 6
- 9 min
Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to CoSleeping
James J. McKenna is the world-renown expert in bedsharing and cosleeping, and his book, published in 2009 by Platypus Media, is a great...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 30
- 6 min
Beltane
A #Celtic holiday and time to welcome the abundance of the fertile earth, Beltane (sometimes spelled Beltaine or even Bealtaine) is a day...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 18
- 5 min
Whey do we need Wasps?
After practicing in Indiana for about twenty-five years - ouch - my husband and I relocated to the Lexington area, which is only a three...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 17
- 11 min
Anemia in Children
Worldwide, anemia in children is a significant concern, impacting nearly half of all children younger than five years of age (Wang,...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 16
- 6 min
Gravitational Insecurity in Children: Sensory Processing Dysfunction
When my youngest was very little, she would scream when she rode in the car seat. We had her evaluated by occupational therapy, as most...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 10
- 3 min
Not My Role
My practice has expanded to the Lexington area so I am just now establishing myself here. I was in Indiana for two decades so my...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 8
- 11 min
Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Is This Normal?
It is sad to me how very little women actually understand about their bodies, and men, quite often, know even less. This creates...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Apr 4
- 7 min
Direct Primary Care: What does that mean?
My beginnings in private practice were from having first been a Nurse-Midwife and if you're at all familiar with midwifery, you may know...
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Dr. Penny Lane
- Mar 22
- 3 min
What to Do if You have a Niacin Reaction
More recently I had a client share she had crazy amounts of #flushing and a rash after taking a new supplement and immediately after...
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