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 • 43 episodes
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
How our most common immune cell can influence the most common birth defect: Conversation with Dr. Suchita Nadkarni, Part 1
Many pregnancy complications have a whodunit quality to them. Scientists don't yet understand exactly why things go wrong when they go wrong, but researchers tend to agree at this point that if there are issues with the placenta, the life...
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Is your Immune System shut off during pregnancy? (spoiler: NO)
Miscarriage and the failure of an embryo to implant are often attributed to issues with an aggressive immune system. Today I'm gonna tell you some stories about your immune system, and in particular how your immune system behaves in pregnancy,...
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Your Uterine Lining determines if and how a pregnancy progesses: Conversation with Dr. Jan Brosens, Part II
If you wanna know what factors contribute to miscarriages, you need to understand what factors contribute to and detract from making the uterus into a hospitable place for pregnancy, both implantation and development. My guest last week, Dr. J...
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Understanding Miscarriage through Evolutionary Biology: Conversation with Dr. Jan Brosens, Part I
Since women have been having babies they've experienced miscarriages. For nearly as long, we have not had a useful way to address miscarriage. Often doctors shrug at your first miscarriage and say it's a normal part of pregnancy. And if it aris...
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Tracking Placental Inflammation in a Pregnancy While its happening: Dr. Yong Wang, Part II
Last week we talked about the technology, originally used to look at inflammation in the brain and heart, applied to the placenta. This amazing form of MRI, which is both non invasive and safe, allows for real time information about inflammatio...
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