Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body

About 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.

Publisher

Paulette Kamenecka

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Nov 2024

Latest episode

7 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

88 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Oct 2026

   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's essentially what Dr. Fisher and her team have done in their creation of an atlas of the maternal fetal interface, that irregular boundary formed between mother and fetus key to all human life on the planet. This week I'll continue my conversati...

2. 

   30 Sept 2026

   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 development. The sheer awe of the accomplishment of the research we will talk about today may be something that draws you in to this conversation. This work represents the cutting edge of pregnancy research, and it shows how unbelievably complicated it is...

3. 

   23 Sept 2026

   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 pregnancy. And if it arises because of aneuploidy, the fertilized egg is the wrong number of chromosomes--at this point, there's not much we can do about it. But there are alternative routes to miscarriage. Today's guest is working to better understand o...

Who has been a guest on Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body

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• Dr Polina Lishko
• Dr Jennifer Payne
• Dr. Mana Parast

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5.0 / 5

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Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100

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Engagement

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