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
IVF & Egg Banking; Emerging Tech Trends in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
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We can initiate a pregnancy by handling eggs and sperm outside the human body. We can remove these elemental factors from people fundamentally changing the way eggs and sperm were built to interact and reinsert them into a woman's body to produce a pregnancy and eventually a baby.
It's an audacious and remarkable feat if you think about it, something that all generations of living creatures before us could not do. As if that wasn't enough, we can do it despite the fact that not all the details of fertility and pregnancy have been worked out.
Helping people manage fertility has been around for nearly 250 years, starting with aides to insemination, just handling sperm, which are, accessible enough. But in the last 50 years, the increasingly complicated ways in which we can interact with eggs and sperm to create a pregnancy is mind blowing. This week we're gonna talk about some of the groundbreaking technologies that have been developed over the last three or four decades to maintain and extend fertility, we'll also look at what this process teaches us about fertility and pregnancy.