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
Understanding Miscarriage and Stillbirth: Conversation with Dr. Harvey Kliman, Part II
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Miscarriage is very much a part of pregnancy. It's really common. Roughly 20% of implanted embryos are estimated to miscarry.
Unfortunately, stillbirth is also part of the process. The odds are 1 in 175.
But for most women who experience these outcomes, it feels like a shock, something you couldn't imagine would happen. In today's episode, I continue my conversation with Dr. Harvey Kliman, who explains why miscarriage and stillbirths happen and offers ways we can try to understand and mitigate the situation.
Find the paper and the density plot here, too:
Placenal Pathology Findings in Unexplained Pregnancy Loss: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10827979/