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
Latest Episodes
How a New Cell Atlas Could Transform Our Understanding of Preeclampsia, Miscarriage and Preterm Birth: Conversation with Dr. Susan Fisher, Part II
IWhat if we could actually watch the conversation between a fetus and its mother? Not metaphorically—the individual cells, where they are, what genes they're expressing, and how that conversation changes over the course of pregnancy. That...
Pregnancy’s Hidden Frontier: The Most Detailed Atlas of the Maternal-Fetal Interface, Conversation with Dr. Susan Fisher, PhD, part I
I don't think I can oversell today's episode. We'll discuss the most detailed atlas of the maternal fetal interface-- that meeting and intermingling of maternal and fetal cells that sets the stage for placental creation and de...
Can your Menstrual Cycle affect your chances of Miscarriage?: Conversation with Dr. Jans Brosens, re-edited and rereleased
Since women have been having babies, they've experienced miscarriage.For nearly as long, we have not had a useful way to address miscarriage. Often doctors shrug at your first miscarriage and say it's a normal part of p...
Inside Human Embryo Implantation: Watching for the first time, Conversation with Dr. Amelie Godeau, Part II
Embryos speak multiple languages. They can communicate through chemistry, which has been known for a long time, and as today's guest will describe, they can also detect physical features of their environment and alter their bi...
How a Human Embryo Implants-- New Insights From a 3D Model: Conversation with Dr. Amelie Godeau, Part I
If you're on the internet even a little bit, you likely saw the viral video first released last August That showed for the first time what a human embryo implanting into a 3D matrix looked like. The video comes from work tryin...