About the Book

What Your Body Wishes It Could Say is a warm, engaging and deeply informative guide to the female body, written to make medical knowledge easier to understand, remember and talk about.

What if your uterus could speak? What would your ovaries say about fertility? What would your womb tell you about pregnancy? What would your cervix say about cervical screening? And what would your body say about the symptoms, changes and questions you have sometimes been too embarrassed to ask?

Drawing from years of clinical experience in Obstetrics and Gynaecology and inspired by real questions women ask every day, Dr Ose Etiobhio brings the human body to life through simple conversations, relatable explanations and evidence-based medical education.

From menstruation, ovulation, fertility and infertility to fibroids, pregnancy, ectopic pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, Caesarean sections, vaginal birth, sexual health and many of the questions women are often afraid to ask, this book tackles complex subjects without drowning the reader in medical jargon.

It is not simply a book about diseases or reproductive organs. It is a book about understanding your body.

It is for the woman trying to conceive, the expectant mother, the teenager beginning to understand her changing body, the woman living with fibroids, the couple navigating fertility challenges, and anyone who wants to understand women's health better.

Most importantly, it is for every woman who has ever wondered:

“Is this normal?”

“Why is my body doing this?”

“Should I be worried?”

“Why didn't anyone explain this to me?”

Through a combination of science, storytelling, humour and compassionate clinical insight, What Your Body Wishes It Could Say turns difficult conversations into understandable ones.

Because medical knowledge should not belong only in hospitals and medical textbooks.

Every woman deserves to understand her own body.

And sometimes, the best way to understand it is to simply let the body speak.

Osemudiamen Etiobhio