PCOS might not be an unfamiliar term to you and if it is, you’re in the right place. PMOS stands for Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome and the name change didn’t come out of no where. To be honest, it’d been a long time coming. At Scrub Life Cares, we talk about and normalize biological processes
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Did you think menstrual discomfort only occurs during the bleeding phase? For some, this is true. For others, it can be another added layer of discomfort through the fertile phase of the cycle, otherwise known as ovulation. Now, this may come and go without a trace other than the fertile cervical fluid that is produced.
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At Scrub Life Cares, our mission is rooted in health equity, cultural pride, and generational healing. As we honor World Breastfeeding Week, we’re lifting up a conversation that too often gets left behind: how we talk to young girls, especially Black and Brown girls, about breastfeeding—and how early exposure can shape a future of empowerment
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I remember being in fourth grade, maybe 10 years old, sitting in a dimly lit classroom while one of our teachers fumbled through a video about “becoming a woman.” It wasn’t new information to me, I’d heard just enough from my mom to know that one day I’d be fertile and that was that. Between