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“It all started when I had blood in my urine as I was approaching the 32 week mark with my daughter,” remembers Maria. “So I called Women’s Health Specialists and Dr. O’Leary had me come into ThedaCare Regional Medical Center – Neenah to have an ultrasound to help...
Women’s Health Specialists has been voted #1 Best OB/GYN in the Fox Valley area for 12 years in a row. The providers and staff are honored to receive this recognition. Each pregnancy… Each birth… Each successful surgery… Each time a woman tells us “Thank you, you’ve...
We are thrilled to introduce our newest physician to our growing OB/GYN practice, Dr. Kelly Adams, soon to be Dr. Kelly Kennedy after her upcoming September wedding. To help everyone get to know her better, I thought a Q & A session with her would be useful, and...
This month, Dr. Pfaffenbach is celebrating her tenth anniversary with Women's Health Specialists, along with her nurse, Jan. "It has been a great ten years together, and it truly has flown by," said Dr. Pfaffenbach. "I feel honored to be part of an OB/GYN...
Learning you have an ovarian cyst might make you panic in a hurry, but Dr. Ernesto Acosta with Women’s Health Specialists says they’re more common than you might think and not to sound the alarm bells too quickly. “In most cases ovarian cysts are no cause for...
Every few weeks there seems to be a new update on the Zika virus, but the news shared always seems to apply to a national level. This makes it difficult for local couples to determine what steps or alterations need to be made in their family planning if vacations are...
Preeclampsia can be a scary diagnosis during pregnancy, especially because we don't exactly what causes it and it affects roughly 5 in 100 women. “We do know that there are women who have a higher risk of developing it, and a key to preventing preeclampsia is knowing...
We strive to provide the best patient centered care, and our latest step toward doing that is offering our pregnant patients a complimentary USB flash drive with their digital ultrasound images on them. "We're really excited to be doing this for our patients," says...
Cesarean sections, commonly known as C-sections, are how nearly 1/3 of babies are born every day in the United States. They are performed for a variety of reasons, including babies who are positioned the wrong way (such as breech), fetal stress during labor or for...