
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 • 30 episodes
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
What triggers labor?: Conversation with Dr. Polina Lishko, Part 2
The how and when of uterine contractions--how are uterine contractions initiated? Whats the trigger or triggers? And when it happens too early, why does it happen too early? are questions we haven't been able to answer as of yet.
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Turning labor on and off: the identification of a trigger: Conversation with Dr. Polina Lishko, PhD, part I
One of the big unknowns in pregnancy, and there are many, is what initiates labor. Researchers point to many different possible triggers, and likely it is some combination of signals from the placenta, the fetus and the mother that kick of...
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How the Uterine Environment Shapes the Baby's Long term Health
Today we are all about fetal programming. It's also known as the Barker Hypothesis or Fetal Origins of Health and Disease. This theory suggests that the uterine environment can impact not just immediate health for the baby, but long-term health...
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Can we predict Postpartum Depression from inside the Third Trimester: Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne
It should not ALSO be a mother's job to catch her own depression after delivery.In pregnancy care in the future, imagine if you walked into your OBs office in your third trimester and you got a blood test that could predict how likely yo...
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