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
Embryo & Endometrium Hacks to Make Implantation Happen: Amazing things your Pregnant Body Can Do
Pregnant women live two lives simultaneously. They're going about their days, driving to work, or sitting down for coffee with a friend, essentially living the lives they were in before they got pregnant. But now, at the same time, they could be doing it while also growing another human, laying down a brain stem, or working on a fetal heart.
All these developmental things are going on, and you don't have direct control over them. In my pregnancies, I felt the weight of responsibility for all the things going on in my body. Even though I understood that I couldn't directly control them. I don't think I spent enough time marveling at all the amazing things my body was doing.
So today I want to look at a few of those things, focusing on some of the details of implantation, the unbelievable steps involved when an egg burrows into the uterine lining. I'm going to share details about some embryo hacks to make it into the mother's body. Please enjoy this solo episode.