Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body
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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 workInformation 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 bodyListen to hear what you won't find on a blogpost or a book off the shelf.
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The podcast focuses on a wide range of topics such as the complexities of the endometrium's role in fertility, immune system interactions during pregnancy, the efficacy of aspirin in preventing preterm birth, and the significance of placental examination in maternal health. Specific episodes discuss groundbreaking research on uterine contractions, maternal health data, and the psychological impacts of childbirth like PTSD, aiming to demystify the pregnancy process while providing listeners actionable insights.
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.
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 for a fetus to make a placenta and for that placenta to integrate itself into the mother's body.
Not only does this work give an incredibly detailed picture of the exact cells in the interface, the spatial location of those cells, accounting for which specific cell sets are near each other and what they likely communicate to each other, and the genes that make that communication possible; it also gives a sense of how the interface changes over time by looking at this interface from weeks five to 39.
It's work on this level that may hold the keys to developing a way to treat many endometrial spectrum disorders like preeclampsia, placental accreta, and even things like preterm birth.
Single-cell spatiotemporal dissection of the human maternal-fetal interface; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41951740/
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