Dr Rushdah L Khan Obstetrician Gynaecologist

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“A fabric womb made by Angélique du Coudray, a French midwife who was commissioned by King Louis XV to reduce infant mortality. From 1760 to 1783, she traveled all over France, visiting poor rural women and sharing her extensive knowledge with them. It is estimated that she trained some 10,000 women.
Du Coudray also invented the first lifesize obstetrical mannequin, for practicing mock births, and published a well-received midwifery textbook

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A fabric womb made by Angélique du Coudray, a French midwife who was commissioned by King Louis XV to reduce infant mortality. From 1760 to 1783, she traveled all over France, visiting poor rural women and sharing her extensive knowledge with them. It is estimated that she trained some 10,000 women.
Du Coudray also invented the first lifesize obstetrical mannequin, for practicing mock births, and published a well-received midwifery textbook

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The first female gynaecologist?… In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law.
Born in 300 BCE, Agnodice cut her hair and entered
Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour.
However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby.
The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.
Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.
Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.

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1. MYTH : The shape of your belly can predict the gender of your baby ie- you carry low if you’re having a boy. If your belly is higher up, it’s a girl. Untrue! Actually, abdominal muscles stretch with subsequent pregnancies. So, if a woman’s belly is “higher up” it probably just means she has strong abdominal muscles or it’s her first pregnancy.

2. MYTH: “Listen carefully to that heart rate and you’ll be able to tell the gender of your future baby” right? It’s not true. Normal fetal heart rate for all babies in utero ranges from 120 to 160 beats per minute. You’ll have to wait for either the sonar or birth to find out the gender.

3. MYTH: You may have heard that if a woman has a “fuller face” or acne, she’s having a girl. This is false and another old wives’ tale. Your face shape and skin condition during pregnancy are influenced by a number of other factors, like diet and genetics.

4. MYTH: Spice during pregnancy causes blindness in babies. Fact : Eating spicy foods during pregnancy is perfectly safe but may lead to heartburn. Request a pregnancy-safe antacid if you are prone to indigestion while expecting.

5. MYTH: Experiencing heartburn during pregnancy means your baby will be born with hair.
Interestingly enough, this one may have some truth. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore found that when pregnant women reported moderate heartburn, they had hairy newborns 82 percent of the time; the majority of heartburn-free women gave birth to bald babies 🤯!

THROW BACK … to an early post call morning in 2018 when I was in my 3rd going into my 4th year of registrar training. I posted this on my personal profile after a busy Bara call, and it popped up on my memories today. The words of Pablo Picasso resonated with me so. I remember feeling really satisfied that although I was physically exhausted, I also felt very content as I’d been part of a great team that evening that had actively made a difference in the lives of the women we serve! Most registrar training programs in most fields of medicine are not easy, but so worth it if you love what you do. Not to mention the very best sleep post call 💤

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to help people ~studying to be a medical doctor would allow me this opportunity to contribute positively to humanity and so the journey began in 2005. I knew that being a part of something as beautiful as childbirth was what I wanted to do when I was in my third year of medical school!The Head of ObGyn Department at the time, Professor Franco Guidozzi , gave our class a lecture I will never forget. Prof jumped up on to the lecture table and proceeded to give us a visual snippet into what it meant to work in the field. The entire lecture made me fall in love with Obstetrics as he gave us a peep into this awe inspiring world. Fast forward to 5th year Obstetrics block at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital- most enlightening and enjoyable 6 weeks of my undergraduate training ❣️. Needless to say I had a great 4 months during internship in the department at Charlotte Maxeke Hospital. I was inspired to pursue this as as my field of interest , and there’s been no looking back since then. I was fortunate to do both my undergraduate training and post graduate specialist training in the University of the Witwatersrand. It’s been a very eventful and life changing ride. I also got to spend 3 years after my registrar training at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in a senior role; where I had the chance to manage high risk obstetrics and gynaecological cases in a tertiary institution and receive further mentorship by Giants in the field. I decided to take the plunge and venture into my own practice in 2022… and here we are. I hope to use this page to help educate women on important health care matters that I feel every woman should know. I enjoyed teaching when in the public sector and I see this as an extension of that… WATCH THIS SPACE