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 Science reshaping how we manage pregnancy: Year End recap, Part II
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Never before in the history of humanity have we been able to examine a pregnancy in process and predict the risk of conditions before clinical symptoms have developed. Even 10 years ago, if you told an OB that you could reliably predict which pregnant women were most likely to encounter preterm birth in their first pregnancy, you'd likely be written off as a kook. The power to predict complications in pregnancy, premature birth, postpartum depression, and other postpartum states is a marker of phenomenal progress.
For the second part of the end of the season recap, let's walk through some more of the amazing research and findings we talked about in the first season of the show that will change how we think about and manage pregnancy going forward.