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
How Early Pregnancy Insights Could Transform Prenatal Care: Dr. Carl Weiner
Many first time mothers experience the schedule of OB visits as informative: there are few visits in the beginning of the pregnancy and many near the end and one might take that to mean that there is more going on at the end than the beginning of gestation.
In fact, there is a tremendous amount of activity going on in the opening weeks of pregnancy, but until now, we understood very little of it, and had very limited ability to change our trajectory with any move other than delivery.
Today's guest, Dr. Carl Weiner, has mined some of the early data of the first trimester to allow him and his team to predict whether a premature birth is likely on the horizon when the pregnant person is 12 weeks pregnant. Today we'll talk about his exciting work.
To find Dr. Carl Weiner's work, see: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Carl+Weiner&sort=date