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Making Sense of Pregnancy: What Experts Want you To Know About Your Body — 73 episodes
Inside the Black Box of your Menstrual Cycle: Conversation with Dr. Margherita Turco, Part I
Understanding Your Menstrual Cycle: Why It Matters, How It Works, and Why You Should Care
Timing of Labor Induction affects C section rate: Conversation with Dr. Cortese and Dr. Hoffmann, Part II
How the Timing of Labor Induction affects the Length of Labor: Conversation with Dr. Cortese & Dr. Hoffmann, Part I
Understanding Miscarriage and Stillbirth: Conversation with Dr. Harvey Kliman, Part II
Why your Miscarriage Wasn't Your Fault: Conversation with Dr. Harvey Kliman, Part 1
Eavesdropping on the first trimester: using new technology to better understand early maternal-placental crosstalk, Conversation with Dr. Shirley Greenbaum
IVF & Egg Banking; Emerging Tech Trends in Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART)
Ovaries: the living Vault of your Fertility
Opening the black box of implantation with a model uterine lining: Conversation with Dr. Irene Zorzan, Part II
Building a 3-D model of a uterine lining to better understand implantation: Conversation with Dr. Irene Zorzan, Part I
How Fetal Sex influences Pregnancy Complications: Conversation with Dr. Vicki Clifton, Part II
How the Sex of the Placenta Affects Pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Vicki Clifton, Part I
A Blood Test to predict the risk of Postpartum Depression: Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne, rebroadcast
Renovating the Uterus in Early Pregnancy: the collab between immune cells and fetal cells, Conversation with Dr. Ashley Moffett, Part 2
uNK Cells and the Placenta: The Immune System’s Role in Healthy Early Pregnancy, Conversation with Dr. Ashley Moffett, Part I
Why the Menstrual Cycle is so important for Fertility and Pregnancy
Rebroadcast: Birth Trauma or Postpartum Depression? Understanding the Difference Matters, Conversation with Dr. Sharon Dekel
Targeting the Placenta: Gene Therapy as a new treatment for fetal growth restriction: Conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, Part 2
Can Gene Therapy fix the placenta? New hope for fetal growth restriction: Conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, Part I
The next generation of prenatal care: how computational biology is changing obstetrics: Conversation with Dr. Liat Shenhav and Dr. Matthew Hoffman
The Science reshaping how we manage pregnancy: Year End recap, Part II
The Science Reshaping How we understand the first trimester: Year End recap, Part I
REBROADCAST: Making Birth Safer, a Conversation with Dr. Elliot Main
Early Pregnancy Is a Dialogue: How Cell Signaling Shows Mothers and Embryos Collaborate: Conversation with Dr. D Stadtmauer, Part II
A placental origin story: what evolutionary biology can tell us, Conversation with Dr. Stadtmauer, part 1
Who is feeding the embryo while the placenta is under construction?
The Behind the Scenes work of your Immune system in preparing the Uterine lining for pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Tamara Tilburgs, Part II
When's the best time to intervene in the health of a pregnancy? Before it starts: Conversation with Dr. Tamara Tilburgs, Part I
How we might manage early immune cell trouble in the placenta: Conversation with Dr. Nadkarni, part II
How our most common immune cell can influence the most common birth defect: Conversation with Dr. Suchita Nadkarni, Part 1
Is your Immune System shut off during pregnancy? (spoiler: NO)
Your Uterine Lining determines if and how a pregnancy progesses: Conversation with Dr. Jan Brosens, Part II
Understanding Miscarriage through Evolutionary Biology: Conversation with Dr. Jan Brosens, Part I
Tracking Placental Inflammation in a Pregnancy While its happening: Dr. Yong Wang, Part II
Measuring Inflammation in the Placenta in real time: Conversation with Dr. Yong Wang, Part I
The Science of Periods: What's really going on in your Uterus
What is the role of the Corpus Luteum in reproductive health and fertility: Conversation with Dr. Kirk Conrad
The backstory of the Unsung Hero of Early Pregnancy: the Corpus Luteum
Why Postpartum is not the "opposite" of pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Uri Alon
Can we predict miscarriage with an activity tracker? Conversation with Professor Benjamin Smarr, Part II
Can an activity tracker tell you if you are pregnant? Conversation with Professor Benjamin Smarr, Part I
Many long held ideas about Placental Development are wrong: a conversation with Dr. Graham Burton, PhD
What triggers labor?: Conversation with Dr. Polina Lishko, Part 2
Turning labor on and off: the identification of a trigger: Conversation with Dr. Polina Lishko, PhD, part I
How the Uterine Environment Shapes the Baby's Long term Health
Can we predict Postpartum Depression from inside the Third Trimester: Conversation with Dr. Jennifer Payne
How to Make a Placenta: A User's Guide
What would it look like to predict Postpartum Hemorrhage? A Conversation with Christine Rohan & Dr. James Weimer
A 3-D model of a placenta (on-a-chip): Conversation with Dr. Colin Murdoch
Looking into the back of your eye for insights about Pregnancy: Conversation with Dr. Li, Part II
The Use of Retinal Scans to predict health conditions in pregnancy & fertility: A conversation with Dr. Li, Part I
The Link Between shifts in your Immune System in Pregnancy & PPD: Conversation with Dr. Lauren Osborne, MD
The Decades Long Process of Making a Viable Egg Cell
Using the Placental Clock to Predict Preterm Birth: Conversation with Dr. Christina Herrera
Your Placenta's Origin Story
Predicting Perinatal Depression: The Future of Maternal Mental Health, a conversation with Dr. Sheila Shanmugan
Embryo & Endometrium Hacks to Make Implantation Happen: Amazing things your Pregnant Body Can Do
The Connection Between the Womb and Lifelong Health: Conversation with Dr. Alison Paquette
How your Placenta and Baby "Talk" to Decide when Labor Starts: Conversation with Dr. Todd Rosen
Unlocking the Secrets of the Placenta with AI: Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein
Understanding How Uterine Contractions Work: A Key to preterm labor, period cramps and endometriosis? Conversation with Dr. Wang
How the Endometrium's Interview Process Affects your Fertility: Conversation with Dr. Nick Macklon
The Hidden Conversation Between the Immune System and Pregnancy: What It Means for Birth: Dr. Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
The Surprising Role of Aspirin in Fighting Preterm Birth Risks: Conversation with Dr. Matthew Hoffman
Does Modern Medicine Underestimate the Power of the Placenta? Conversation with Dr. Mana Parast, Part II
What we are Missing in Pregnancy Care when we Don't Examine the Placenta, Part I: Dr. Mana Parast
How Early Pregnancy Insights Could Transform Prenatal Care: Dr. Carl Weiner
How New Research on Uterine Contractions Could Revolutionize Labor Monitoring: Dr. Roger Young
Why ‘It’s Just Postpartum Depression’ Misses the Mark for So Many Mothers: Dr. Sharon Dekel, PhD
It's not "Mommy Brain"-How Hormones during Pregnancy Prepare the Brain for Parenting: A Conversation with Dr. Laura Pritschet
How Maternal Health Data Is Saving Lives: A conversation with Dr. Elliot Main
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