Suzanna Chatterjee, M.D.

09/18/2026

This morning I cried at my team meeting River Valley Ob/Gyn

Because, for the first time in 9 months, I felt some relief of the weight on my shoulders.

Nine months ago the other three OB/GYNs left the community, leaving me as the only OB/GYN physician here.

And somehow, I’ve been trying to keep everything moving. I’ve been trying to figure out how to keep everything moving. Patients. Deliveries. Surgery. The practice. The medspa. And mostly the community who is depending on me.

And now also preparing to welcome our baby boy after years of infertility, IVF, loss, and a journey I honestly wasn’t sure would end with a baby.

And somewhere along the way, I stopped noticing how little space there was left for me.

Then last night, something happened that sounds so ordinary:

I slept.

This morning I went to Pilates.
I got coffee.
I ate breakfast.
I stood in the shower for ten minutes…just standing in the warm water.
And I came to work early enough to actually get things done.

None of those things should feel extraordinary.

But they did.

Because I finally have someone who can share the clinical load.

Adding a Certified Nurse Midwife to my practice has shown me something I couldn’t see clearly before:

I don’t necessarily need to work harder. I need to build a practice where I don’t have to carry everything myself.

And for the first time in nine months, I can actually see a way forward.

Today, that felt like enough to make me cry. 🤍

09/17/2026

Saint Mary's Expands Birth Care Options with Local Certified Nurse-Midwife Miranda Smith. 💚

Saint Mary's is pleased to announce the addition of Miranda Smith, DNP, CNM, APRN, to its medical staff. Smith is accepting new patients at River Valley Obstetrics & Gynecology in Russellville. Appointments may be scheduled by calling 479.219.9913.

09/14/2026

Oops… I did it again.

And again.
And again.
And again. 😂

10 egg retrievals. 30ish of my own eggs….and still no baby.

At some point, “just one more” became a whole damn collection. 🥴

And after 10 retrievals I didnt have it in me anymore…so we moved back to donor eggs.

Infertility really does have a sense of humor…

And yes… I can be lighthearted about it because otherwise the only option is to be sad and cry. Everything works out when and how it should. I truly believe that. 🤍

09/13/2026

This is what 10 egg retrievals looks like…

For some reason, I couldn’t bring myself to throw them away even from the very first shot I mixed, drew up and injected 5 years ago.

Every syringe.
Every vial.
Every little piece of evidence that I had tried again.

For a long time, I didn’t know why I was saving them.

Maybe I was keeping track of everything it had taken.

Maybe I needed proof that I had really gone through all of it.

Maybe I wanted my rainbow baby to see how much I tried and fought for them.

Or maybe…

I wasn’t collecting vials and syringes…I was still collecting hope. 🤍

09/12/2026

POV: You get a certified nurse midwife in a town that’s never had one before and immediately put her to work. 😂

Just two women’s health specialists trying to figure it out…when we aren’t the confused ones. What the heck is going on?! 😂

Welcome to the new era of women’s health and pregnancy care around these parts!

09/09/2026

I didn’t choose to stop. I reached my limit.

And for a long time, I thought those were the same thing.

They aren’t.

I could still want my baby with everything in me and simultaneously know that I couldn’t keep asking my body to endure another retrieval.

I could still believe in the dream while accepting that the path I had imagined might not be the path that got me there.

That was one of the hardest things infertility taught me.

Sometimes you don’t have to let go of the dream. You just have to let go of the version of the dream you thought was the only way.

🤍