Editorial policy

This page says how our pages get made. It exists because you are reading things about your body, and you deserve to know who wrote them, what they were built on, and what happens when we get something wrong.

Who writes and who signs off

Every guide and tool is written by Cynthia Obinatu, our community and editorial lead. Her name is on the page. She is not a clinician and we never present her as one.

Every page that makes a claim about your body is then checked by a named clinician before it publishes. Their name, their qualification and the date they reviewed it appear in the byline. If a page has no reviewer name on it, that page makes no medical claim, and it will tell you where to go for one.

Where our facts come from

Health claims carry a source, linked at the claim and listed again at the foot of the page.

• Nigerian sources first, where one exists. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency for immunisation, the Federal Ministry of Health, and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control for anything sold here. If you are reading us in Nigeria, the Nigerian guidance is the one that applies to you.
• Then international authorities. The World Health Organization, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, the National Health Service, and Cochrane.
• We cite the guideline or the study itself, not somebody else's summary of it.
• We do not cite content farms, and we do not cite other blogs as though they were evidence.

Where something is cultural or practical rather than clinical, we say so plainly and we do not dress an opinion up as research.

What we will not do

• We do not diagnose, treat or cure anything.
• We do not tell you a symptom is nothing. If something could be serious, the page says go and be seen.
• We do not write to frighten you into buying something.
• We do not invent statistics, and we do not quote a number we cannot link to.
• We do not publish a page about your body without a clinician's name on it.

How pages stay current

Every page carries the date it was last updated, and health pages also carry the date a clinician last reviewed them. We review health pages at least once a year, and sooner when guidance changes. When we update a page we rewrite it properly rather than bolting a correction onto the bottom.

How we make money, and what it does not buy

We sell our own programs and toolkits, and the guides link to them. That is the whole model. A program CTA on a page never changes what the page says, and we do not take payment to recommend a product, a clinic or a brand. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed on the page itself and not in a footer.

Corrections

If we have something wrong, tell us at hello@wholesomegirlies.xyz and point us at the source. We will check it, fix it, and update the date on the page. We would rather be corrected than be confidently wrong about somebody's pregnancy.

Who is accountable

Editorial decisions on this site rest with Cynthia Obinatu. Clinical accuracy rests with the named reviewer on each page. If you want to raise something about how we work rather than about a specific page, the same address reaches us.