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
Eavesdropping on the first trimester: using new technology to better understand early maternal-placental crosstalk, Conversation with Dr. Shirley Greenbaum
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As scientists have come to learn more about serious pregnancy complications like preeclampsia and premature birth, they believe that some of those complicated issues are born in the very earliest days of pregnancy.
But the goings-on in the early first trimester have been a mystery for most of human history.
Recent technological advancements, like the special microscope used by the researcher I talk with today, uses techniques that attempt to "essentially" add audio to the video, allowing us to know more about both what cells are present in these early weeks (with a focus on maternal immune cells and different types of EVTs) and what kinds of conversations they may be having with each other.
A Spatially Resolved Timeline of the Human Maternal-Fetal Interface: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06298-9