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.
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Latest Episodes
Why your Miscarriage Wasn't Your Fault: Conversation with Dr. Harvey Kliman, Part 1
Miscarriage is a well-known secret that you may not be aware of until it happens to you or to a close friend, but it's incredibly common. Studies suggest something like 15 to 20% of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriage or...
Eavesdropping on the first trimester: using new technology to better understand early maternal-placental crosstalk, Conversation with Dr. Shirley Greenbaum
As scientists have come to learn more about serious pregnancy complications like preeclampsia and premature birth, they believe that some of those complicated issues are born in the very earliest days of pregnancy. But the goi...
IVF & Egg Banking; Emerging Tech Trends in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
We can initiate a pregnancy by handling eggs and sperm outside the human body. We can remove these elemental factors from people fundamentally changing the way eggs and sperm were built to interact and reinsert them into a woman's body to...
Ovaries: the living Vault of your Fertility
Question, are ovaries the most underrated organ? Answer: Yes. They're the workhorse of your menstrual cycle, this critical process that happens again and again and again to preserve your fertility, which may or may not be a top priority f...
Opening the black box of implantation with a model uterine lining: Conversation with Dr. Irene Zorzan, Part II
Today we'll continue our conversation about Project Implantation. In last week's episode, we were focused on how the model of the uterine lining was created and what it could do. This part of the conversation focuses more on w...