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 • 62 episodes
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
How Fetal Sex influences Pregnancy Complications: Conversation with Dr. Vicki Clifton, Part II
The sex of the fetus often isn't even mentioned until the 20 week scan, but as my conversation with Dr. Clifton suggests, fetal sex can have real impacts on how the fetus negotiates intrauterine life, especially if there are challenges.
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How the Sex of the Placenta Affects Pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Vicki Clifton, Part I
Lots of research has been done trying to understand how the human placenta is similar to and different from placentas of other mammals; to specifically tease out exactly how the placenta contributes to a pregnancy, and how its formation affect...
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A Blood Test to predict the risk of Postpartum Depression: Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne, rebroadcast
Postpartum depression is the most common complication of pregnancy.Given our current ability to measure it we think it will affect 10-15% of pregnancies, but it can be a tricky condition to diagnose because in the past, diagnosis has dep...
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Renovating the Uterus in Early Pregnancy: the collab between immune cells and fetal cells, Conversation with Dr. Ashley Moffett, Part 2
One of the first things on an embryo's to-do list is to make a placenta, but to do this, it will need to work well with the decidual cells occupying the future Placenta construction site, otherwise known as the decidua or uterine lining t...
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uNK Cells and the Placenta: The Immune System’s Role in Healthy Early Pregnancy, Conversation with Dr. Ashley Moffett, Part I
Although your OB usually doesn’t want to see you in the early weeks of pregnancy—there’s a lot going on that is of critical importance to the ease or complications of a pregnancy—specifically , the introduction of fetus to your uterine lining, ...
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