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
Looking into the back of your eye for insights about Pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Li, Part II
Last week we talked about the magic of peering into your brain, looking for clues about what issues might visit in pregnancy by using the non invasive retinal scan. Today we add more possibilities to that list of things to look for in the second half of my conversation with Dr. Li. she's an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also the Assistant Director of Public Affairs at the Global Centre for Asian Women's Health (GloW).
In today's episode we talk about how long it takes for systemic changes to be reflected in these scans, for the use of these scans to measure things like small for gestation age as well as depression in pregnancy.
To learn more about Dr. Li and her work, you can find her here: https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/obgyn/research/our-researchers/Queenie-Li-Ling-Jun.html#:~:text=Queenie%20Li%20Ling%20Jun%20%7C%20Department%20of%20Obstetrics%20&%20Gynaecology