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. >> she just waited for her annual gyn exam only a few weeks away. >> she felt that my stomach was just hard. she sent me for an ultrasound. good her right ovary had a mass, the size of a melon. >> i was freaking out a little bit, yeah. >> especially when several small cysts were discovered on her left ovary. >> we called them borderline tumors. they tenth to happen in women in their 20's and their 30's. they are more rare as you get older. >> ashley's tumor would require a bit more than just removing mass. reality set in. this was cancer. she was definitely losing her right ovary so young and it could be worse. >> because, by the time you are diagnosed. >> it is very hard to do that. a lot of woman find their cancers at stage three or even stage four, where your prognosis definitely not good. >> my biggest fear was that it was so big, it was the size of a melon, what i would wake up to going into surgery. >> ob-gyn nicole freehill is ashley's current doctor. >> fortunately, ashley's cancer was caught at stage one. >> no chemo or radiation necessary in that ovary and she still has one f

. >> my og/gyn was asking what the situation would be like after the baby was born. i told with our lifestyle, we do need to put him in daycare when he's two months. and he got a little sad. he told me, if you are my wife i would much rather for you to stay home and not miss any bonding moment with the little kid. >> wait, what? if you were my wife? with her ob/gyn hitting on her? whoa, stop. put a-- buy a lady a virgin pina kol adda first. oh good god. hold on. oh, god, how did you get poop all the way up your neck? jeez, sorry. where was i? right. moms, don't let the shaming get you down. remember, rule number three, it is not your fault. want to know whose fault it is? it's your baby's fault because you had a plan. so did i. i was going to have a natural birth. and a free standing tub of smart water. i was going to breses feed until my baby was 156 months and then junior rolled out and was all bleep whreep that noise. -- [bleep] that noise. scooby, stop it, stop eating that dieper, put it down. >> we are all just doing the best we can. you woon even believe the cr

. >> hello i'm charlotte i'm an ob/gyn at the george washington university. it is going to be a long summer for us, every woman coming in with a mosquito bite, what general advice do you have for that particular situation? [laughter] >> oh boy. thank you so much for what you do. i know an ob/gyn you're always counseling because people want to take care of themselves, they want a healthy baby. there's probably many other things besides the insect repellent that are important for women to do during pregnancy. but i think we hope to have better information that can help with the risk in context. right now we do not have any local transition in the 50 states. the only part of the united states with local transmission from mosquitoes is a puerto rico, the u.s. virgin islands, the territories in u.s. somalia. right now the focus is on travel risks. also having that health department come out and assess the travel associated circumstances. good luck this summer and the woman that you will be seen. >> what is going to happen is that women, the first message you get y

refer you to a specialist like myself who is a reconstructive pelvis surgeon, it's a sub specialty of gyn. we can go into major rehabilitation to work on the muscles, get pelvic floor trainer. the bottom line is i don't think you should be limiting your ability or resorting to pads to handle these kinds of problems because it's really treatable. >> if i go to you, my doctor, is the first course of action going to be some type of rehabilitation to try to work this out myself perhaps with a physical therapist or is surgery an immediate thought process? and perhaps that's what also scares women about coming forward with their doctors about this because they think surgery. >> i know. and surgery should generally be a last resort. in general we try to be as conservative as possible. sometimes women are breast feeding, there may be hormonal issues and that needs to be sort of alleviated. certainly trying to help with losing the baby weight. but rehabilitating the muscles. but sometimes, particularly if there are changes on the connective tissue. now that's like a hernia. you can want in the wor

. >> so, let's get an opinion from somebody who knows what she is talking about, doctor, ob/gyn fromhe university of pennsylvania, pen medicine. and i know you're on the way to the airport, but i know you're really good and you know what you are talking about so we want you on the phone. welcome to "good day" philadelphia. >> so, are we past that now in 2016? is it okay to have a baby at 50? chance of getting probe than the r less than 1 percent, risk every less than 50% of her losing the pregnancy. >> 50%? >> ooh%. >> wow. >> and the risk of having genetic abnormality is one out of 12 pregnant woman in her age group. >> we're very happy for her but very cautious. and i'm hoping that everybody in philadelphia that's rooting for this pregnancy to be a good outcome. have things changed over the years? initially very difficult. it can be more difficult for women as they get older it have children. i have three kids past the age of 35. but you may imagine, we're not her doctor, but janet may have used fertility,. >> they know in advance, possibly, the embryo they would be placing may not

. >> i'm an ob/gyn at the george washington university and it's going to be a long summer for us with every woman coming in with a mosquito bite. is there general advice you have for that? i appreciate that. >> oh, boy. >> thank you so much for what you do. you know, i know in ob/gyn you're always counseling because, you know, people want to take care of themselves. they want a healthy baby. and, you know, there's probably many other things besides the insect repellant that are important for women to do during their pregnancy. but we hope to have better and better information that can help put the risk in context. right now we don't have any local transmission in the 50 states. the only part of the united states with local transmission from mosquitos is the -- puerto rico, u.s. virgin islands, american samoa, the territories. so, really right now the focus is travel risk. and having that health department come out and assess the travel associated circumstances. but good luck with the summer and the women that you'll be seeing. >> what's going to happen is that women -- the first messa

. >> speaking as an ob/gyn, what would you say? >> cover up when you go outside.lant and just talk to your obstetrician. >> maybe not to go to the affected areas. >> if it's within your power not to go temporarily, that's what i would recommend. >> none of these pregnant women that contracted it, they didn't contract it in the u.s. they contracted it elsewhere, correct. >> as of right now, yes. >> good distinction. let's check in with rob mr. let's do it. >> can you bring us nicer weather? it's been bad. >> it's been such a great week and -- rainy fan then it was a great week. a little bit of trouble yesterday in newark. this tree has been unstable for the past couple of weeks, took a little bit of rain and, boom, came down. nobody hurt but took out a couple of cars, less wind today but still some coastal flooding with this. coastal low. that really brought some heavy rain yesterday from new york to washington, d.c. to baltimore and that onshore flow will continue to see some water push up across the beaches, but we may see some clearing on the east coast, 4:00, 5

. >> speaking as an ob/gyn, what would your advice to be to pregnant women now?u go outside. use mosquito repellant and just talk to your obstetrician. >> maybe try not to go to the affected areas. >> if it's within your power not to go temporarily, that's what i would recommend. >> and we should point out, none of these pregnant women that contracted it, they didn't contract it in the u.s. they contracted it elsewhere, correct? >> correct, as of right now, yes. >> good distinction. >>> let's check in with rob >> let's do it. >> can you bring us nicer weather? it's been such a gray week. >>> gray or great. >> reporter: depending on if you're a rainy fan, it was a great week. this tree has been unstable for the past a couple of weeks. it took a gust of wind and rain to bring it down, nobody hurt, but it took out cars. with the coastal low that brought heavy rain from new york to washington, d.c. and baltimore. the onshore flow will see water push up across the beaches, but we may see clearing on the east coast, maybe 4:00 p.m., 5:00 p.m., brightening of the skies.

. >> yet, all the major health groups, the cdc, ob-gyns, march of times, even researchers of the study't want that point to be missed. >> absolutely. that's why we're reporting it. to say that the headline can be misleading. the cdc says one out of four women don't get enough folic acid. and neural tube defects account for 3,000 -- affect pregnancies a year. because of our public health measures to educate women about folic acid, we've been able to decrease these birth defects by 1,000 a year. >> there's lots of studies that show a correlation. and not it's inially causation. what do you think is behind -- and not necessarily causation. what do you think is behind women of elevated levels of the vitamin and folic acid with children that have an increased likelihood of autism? >> we don't know. there are a lot of possible nextnisms. -- mechanisms. one is that they ate a lot of food with folate in it, used a lot of supplements with folate. they somehow absorbed more folate than other women or dent metabolize it or break it down as well. there are a lot of unanswered questions. we don't k

. >> hello i'm charlotte i'm an ob/gyn at the george washington university. it is going to be a long summer for us, every woman coming in with a mosquito bite, what general advice do you have for that particular situation? [laughter] >> oh boy. thank you so much for what you do. i know an ob/gyn you're always counseling because people want to take care of themselves, they want a healthy baby. there's probably many other things besides the insect repellent that are important for women to do during pregnancy. but i think we hope to have better information that can help with the risk in context. right now we do not have any local transition in the 50 states. the only part of the united states with local transmission from mosquitoes is a puerto rico, the u.s. virgin islands, the territories in u.s. somalia. right now the focus is on travel risks. also having that health department come out and assess the travel associated circumstances. good luck this summer and the woman that you will be seen. >> what is going to happen is that women, the first message you get y

my ob/gyn telling me if you need to relax have a glass of wine it's okay. and being realistic in the real world a couple of sips in your third trimester once in a while is not going to hurt the fetus but three to five drinks a week for your entire pregnancy, no bueno. >> hope no one does that? we'll end on agreement on that. >> jen will take your questions and tweet her @drjashton. we could have talked all day. >> now more of your exclusive interview with the vice president. >> he was very open and he is very determined to honor his son. he was here yesterday to talk about the white house cancer moonshot task force and how he's honoring beau's life and legacy. we both were i vatican for that conference and the doctors and researchers, they kept talking about the red tape, like especially when it comes to fda approval that they feel like they're really on the cusp of some things but how do they get through that? >> one of the things the president did when he asked me to head this up, he gave me authority over all the federal agencies that have anything to do

. >>> leading ob-gyn group is recommending that the maximum time spent in the second stage of labor be my biggest nightmares. one of those trucks, something happens and something flies off of it. heavy rain from the gulf of mexico in texas all the way out west. by the time we get to the mid-week period, it makes its way to the gulf coast, looking at wet weather. the latter part of the week, more storminess from florida all the way to the mississippi valley. stormy in the pacific northwest. temperaturewise, below average throughout much of the country as the early part of the week, but as we get into the midweek, still cool in the east, but finally above ave east and the mississippi valleys. >>> nice day to be outside today. plenty of sunshine. it's already 53 in arlington, 52 in manassas and chantilly, 50 degrees in winchester. a nice day today. sunshine, and temperatures should get up to the mid-60s for highs today. that's still 10 degrees cooler than average but at least the sun is out. clouds and off and on rain likely tomorrow, and on friday wi >> that's your latest weather. >>> in

. >>> leading ob-gyn group is recommending that the maximum time spent in the second stage of labor beecond pregnancy. >>> captain america:civil war brought in $72 million. followed by "jungle book," and m "money monster" in third. >>> a truck hauling scrap met daal rolled over. luckily, no one was seriously injured by traffic was backed up for hours. officials believe the crash was caused by a failure of the truck's suspension system. >>> let's get a check of the weather from al. >> that's one of my nightmares. one of those trucks. flies off of it. anyway, early part of the week, wet weather, heavier rain from the gulf coast in texas all the way out west. by the time we get to the mid-week period, it makes its way to the mid-atlantic, southeast. southwest looking at wet weather. the latter part of the week, we'll see more storminess from florida to the mid mississippi river valley. temperature wise, below average throughout much of the country as the early part of the week. as we get to the midweek, cool in the east. finally, above average in the northeast. and in the plains. below av

. >> reporter: the sonogram, commonly used in ob-gyn offices, is now portable and waterproof. killing pregnant sharks no longer required. the newly found images are stunning. >> you're a scientist, and i know you treat things scientifically. do you feel a little connection when you're looking at that image? >> it's amazing when you see the little faces. you can't help but feel connected. >> reporter: increasingly, sharks like this sand bar shark are rare. researchers at the university of miami say some species have declined 90% or more in some areas over the past few decades. despite their reputation as man-eaters, experts believe they need protection. >> shark populations help keep the oceans clean. they do a fundamental work for us. >> sharks travel hundreds, some thousands of miles a year. so the idea of protecting them all out there, scientists say, it won't happen. if they can find out where they give birth, they can set up safe zones. >> you have to do it in important, critical arias, like the ones they might be mating or giving birth and gestating. today, we're trying t

. >> ob/gyn at the george washington university. it is going to be a long summer with us.ter] [laughter] >> zero, boy. >> thank you so much. i i know you are alwaysec counseling figures people want to take care of themselves and want healthy babies. i think we hope to have better and better information. right now we have no local transmissions. puerto rico, us virgin islands. the focus is on travel riskel as and having the health department come out and assess the travel associated circumstances.>> what that could like this summer. >> women, the 1st message you get to your patience is that if there is no local outbreak there is little chance the mosquito bite is going to give them see. if we do have local outbreak will reasonably good chance, then it will not be unreasonable for someone to come and your clinic and cerro city a lot backyard and got bit by a mosquito. that's can be a problem.hey're g they will be demanding to have a test for zika. there are two types of testsect , ally infected now and then there's one that if you got