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
The Link Between shifts in your Immune System in Pregnancy & PPD: Conversation with Dr. Lauren Osborne, MD
There are many routes to depression, in pregnancy and postpartum, and one route that we focus on today is that of immune dysregulation. Pregnancy is a time of real immune disruption as your body shifts its resources to protect the baby from the mother's body, and the mother's body from infectious agents in the environment. Researchers think that how these shifts play out can contribute to the risk of developing depression after pregnancy. Today I talk to one of those researchers, in the hunt for a blood test to predict postpartum depression.
To follow more of Dr. Osborne's work, you can find her here: https://pippilab.weill.cornell.edu/team/lauren-m-osborne-md