Podcast Episodes

Why the Menstrual Cycle is so important for Fertility and Pregnancy

We are going to talk about the menstrual cycle, aka the result of the conversation between your brain, pituitary and ovaries that’s going on each mon…

5 months, 1 week ago

Rebroadcast: Birth Trauma or Postpartum Depression? Understanding the Difference Matters, Conversation with Dr. Sharon Dekel

Current statistics suggest that postpartum depression is one of the most common complications of pregnancy in the US, estimated at between 1 in 10 an…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

Targeting the Placenta: Gene Therapy as a new treatment for fetal growth restriction: Conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, Part 2

 The very first construction project in pregnancy is the placenta. It's critical to the embryo's development, and problems with the placenta can have…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Can Gene Therapy fix the placenta? New hope for fetal growth restriction: Conversation with Dr. Helen Jones, Part I

 If you're listening to this episode on placental gene therapy, you may wanna sit down. 

Today's guest walks us through a gene therapy that (a) doesn'…

6 months ago

The next generation of prenatal care: how computational biology is changing obstetrics: Conversation with Dr. Liat Shenhav and Dr. Matthew Hoffman

 Many headlines exclaim the wonders of AI and medical research. What better place to leverage the advantages of AI than in research about pregnancy t…

6 months, 1 week ago

The Science reshaping how we manage pregnancy: Year End recap, Part II

 Never before in the history of humanity have we been able to examine a pregnancy in process and predict the risk of conditions before clinical sympt…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

The Science Reshaping How we understand the first trimester: Year End recap, Part I

 Looking through some of the research I highlighted on the podcast this year gives me a real sense of hope about the future of pregnancy, and I hope …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

REBROADCAST: Making Birth Safer, a Conversation with Dr. Elliot Main

I am both hopeful and moved, AND filled with disbelief after my conversation with today's guest. 

He is an OB who has done an inordinate amount of wor…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Early Pregnancy Is a Dialogue: How Cell Signaling Shows Mothers and Embryos Collaborate: Conversation with Dr. D Stadtmauer, Part II

 Many pregnancy complications cluster around issues with the placenta, the first fetal organ to form in a pregnancy. Here at the end of 2025, this or…

7 months ago

A placental origin story: what evolutionary biology can tell us, Conversation with Dr. Stadtmauer, part 1

 How the placenta develops and the ways in which that development affect both the mother and the pregnancy have been a mystery since pregnancy became…

7 months, 1 week ago