Pregnancy planning, prevention, and risk evaluation clinics: rethinking the traditional preconception consult.

The preconception consultation has traditionally centered pregnancy as desired and preordained. Separating preconception and contraceptive visits burdens patients and further fragments reproductive healthcare. We argue that the creation of a combined preconception and complex contraception clinic for individuals with significant medical and obstetrical comorbidities is one approach to promoting reproductive autonomy.

Cerebrospinal fluid as vaginal discharge: ventriculoperitoneal shunt migration following Cesarean section.

Congenital hydrocephalus was once a permanently disabling and even fatal disease. With the advent of ventriculoperitoneal shunts, affected women are now surviving to their reproductive years and beyond. Pregnancy outcomes in this population are generally positive.