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
Can we predict Postpartum Depression from inside the Third Trimester: Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne
It should not ALSO be a mother's job to catch her own depression after delivery.
In pregnancy care in the future, imagine if you walked into your OBs office in your third trimester and you got a blood test that could predict how likely you are to run into postpartum depression?
Among all your other novel and challenging responsibilites as the caretaker of a newborn, it would not be your responsibility while operating on very little sleep to also be carefully monitoring and analyzing your emotional state so that you can reach out to a doctor if anything seems awry--and that's making the sometimes large leap in imagining that amidst all the change and newness you'd be able to tell whether the change you may be feeling is typical or one that requires help. Today's guest will talk about this future.
You can find Dr. Payne's work here, at the Reproductive Psychiatry Research Program: https://med.virginia.edu/psychiatry/research/reproductive-psychiatry-research-program/