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
Using the Placental Clock to Predict Preterm Birth: Conversation with Dr. Christina Herrera
This week's episode feels, in some ways, like an admission that The easter bunny isn't real, and spoiler, neither is santa...we focus on research that considers ways to predict spontaneous preterm birth. Preterm birth (which is anything before 37 weeks) comes calling for many different reasons, which is one of the challenges of studying it...but today's guest talks about some real breakthroughs she and her colleagues found in terms of using information we've had for decades to better predict preterm birth for a specific set of mothers, and what techniques we are currently using that may not have the data to support their use.
A link to Dr. Herrera's paper: Revisiting the placental clock: Early corticotrophin-releasing hormone rise in recurrent preterm birth
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8445461/