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
Targeting the Placenta: Gene Therapy as a new treatment for fetal growth restriction: Conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, Part 2
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The very first construction project in pregnancy is the placenta. It's critical to the embryo's development, and problems with the placenta can have significant consequences for the baby. Since doctors have been able to identify fetal growth restriction in the course of pregnancy--which started in about the 1970s-- the medical response has been to prescribe bedrest and or early delivery.
In the second half of my conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, we talk about how this response to fetal growth restriction may give way to new gene therapy that can fix the placenta during pregnancy.