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
Rebroadcast: Birth Trauma or Postpartum Depression? Understanding the Difference Matters, Conversation with Dr. Sharon Dekel
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Current statistics suggest that postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of pregnancy in the US, estimated at between 1 in 10 and 1 and 5 women--and this estimate is mostly based on the response to survey responses.
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is the most widely used screening tool for postpartum depression (PPD), recommended by ACOG, USPSTF, and PSI for universal screening at the 1-12 week postpartum visit, and is an imperfect tool to catch all cases.
Contrast that to childbirth related PTSD--which is believed to be nearly as common, and for which no standardized screening tool exists.
It's important to distinguish one from the other because the treatment is different for PPD and CB-PTSD.
Dr. Dekel shares why the distinction is important and ways we might use to catch CB-PTSD early.