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 • 49 episodes
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
Early Pregnancy Is a Dialogue: How Cell Signaling Shows Mothers and Embryos Collaborate: Conversation with Dr. D Stadtmauer, Part II
Many pregnancy complications cluster around issues with the placenta, the first fetal organ to form in a pregnancy. Here at the end of 2025, this organ still holds a significant amount of mystery. It's a wily organ that comes in many different...
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A placental origin story: what evolutionary biology can tell us, Conversation with Dr. Stadtmauer, part 1
How the placenta develops and the ways in which that development affect both the mother and the pregnancy have been a mystery since pregnancy became a subject of study. Much of medicine focuses on the symptoms that come from pregnancy com...
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Who is feeding the embryo while the placenta is under construction?
We all know the placenta as this life giving organ, the first to develop in pregnancy; a critical connection between mother and fetus that sends food and oxygen to the baby and eliminates the fetal waste products. Only recently did I trip over ...
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The Behind the Scenes work of your Immune system in preparing the Uterine lining for pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Tamara Tilburgs, Part II
Why is an active immune system important both in pregnancy and before pregnancy when you're trying to prepare the uterine lining, AKA, the decidua? That was the topic of last week's conversation with Dr. Berg's, and this week we ta...
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When's the best time to intervene in the health of a pregnancy? Before it starts: Conversation with Dr. Tamara Tilburgs, Part I
Talk to any person who does research on pregnancy, and you may get a variety of different answers about the source of different pregnancy complications, and at what point in pregnancy we would have to turn back the clock to effectively interv...
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