Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Have you been surprised by what we do and don't know about pregnancy and birth today? If you are pregnant, or have been in the past, this show helps you understand what's happening (or has happened) to our bodies--both the short term and long term effects of this transformation. We explore the boundaries of our scientific grasp on the wildly complex processes of pregnancy and birth.
After my complicated pregnancies, I went looking for answers and have interviewed hundreds of experts about women's health in this transition.
Every Tuesday you'll hear:
- Scientists at the cutting edge who are trying to uncover how pregnancy and birth work and what happens when they don't work
- Information you could use to better understand your own body in pregnancy
- .A better sense of the limits of your responsibility for what's happening inside your body
- Listen to hear what you won't find on a blogpost or a book off the shelf.
Podcasting since 2024 • 36 episodes
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
What is the role of the Corpus Luteum in reproductive health and fertility: Conversation with Dr. Kirk Conrad
Pregnancy can appear smooth when everything, or nearly everything goes according to plan--basically. But if you're part of the group of people for which it has not gone smoothly, in pursuit of what may have gone wrong, you find that this proces...
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The backstory of the Unsung Hero of Early Pregnancy: the Corpus Luteum
This week’s episode is the ‘Making Sense of Pregnancy’ version of the broadway play (and now movie) Wicked: it provides the back story of a critical character in pregnancy that you likely didn’t know enough about. It also ...
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Why Postpartum is not the "opposite" of pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Uri Alon
If we wanted to bury the phrase “bounce back” to describe our expectation about how a body should respond in postpartum, I think today’s conversation can effectively do that. I talk to a researcher who has gathered the largest sampl...
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Can we predict miscarriage with an activity tracker? Conversation with Professor Benjamin Smarr, Part II
When it comes to categorizing pregnant women as high or low risk, we leave so much information on the table--which keeps us limited to the model where doctors use broad averages to triage care for pregnant women. Age is a definitive way to cate...
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Can an activity tracker tell you if you are pregnant? Conversation with Professor Benjamin Smarr, Part I
In the olden days, women measured something called basal body temperature (BBT), which is core temperature, to track ovulation by measuring their temperature right when they wake up--it's the first thing you'd do-- with a special thermometer th...
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