WITH MY FEET in the stirrups, I felt an electric jolt of pain roll through my abdomen. I gripped the sides of the examination table, knuckles turning white. The two Tylenol the nurse had told me to ...

HSG testing is a common practice in the fertility world. Why don’t women know what they’re actually getting into? WITH MY FEET in the stirrups, I felt an electric jolt of pain roll through my abdomen.

Six weeks into my second pregnancy, a mild ache in my lower right side came and went for two days before escalating into pain so excruciating that I dropped to the floor in the fetal position, crying ...