Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPredicting Perinatal Depression: The Future of Maternal Mental Health, a conversation with Dr. Sheila Shanmugan
Perinatal mood disorders represent one of the most common complications of pregnancy--1 in 5 women will experience this during or after their pregnan…
1 year, 4 months ago
Embryo & Endometrium Hacks to Make Implantation Happen: Amazing things your Pregnant Body Can Do
Season 1 Episode 14
Pregnant women live two lives simultaneously. They're going about their days, driving to work, or sitting down for coffee with a friend, essentially…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Connection Between the Womb and Lifelong Health: Conversation with Dr. Alison Paquette
What happens in the womb doesn't stay in the womb--so said David Barker in the 1990s, a British epidemiologist, Barker found associations between bi…
1 year, 4 months ago
How your Placenta and Baby "Talk" to Decide when Labor Starts: Conversation with Dr. Todd Rosen
Every popular depiction of a woman in labor that you've ever seen on TV or in movies or experienced yourself contains one real truth: the start of la…
1 year, 4 months ago
Unlocking the Secrets of the Placenta with AI: Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein
Each baby is born with a pregnancy diary they've kept while they've lived in their mother's body, otherwise known as the placenta. In the US, only ab…
1 year, 5 months ago
Understanding How Uterine Contractions Work: A Key to preterm labor, period cramps and endometriosis? Conversation with Dr. Wang
Monitoring contractions in labor hasn't changed in 50 years--the most often used tool, the tocodynamometer, uses an indirect, one dimensional view o…
1 year, 5 months ago
How the Endometrium's Interview Process Affects your Fertility: Conversation with Dr. Nick Macklon
Season 1 Episode 11
You may not have given much thought to the lining of your uterus, aka your endometrium; but it is a super important workhorse when it comes to pregna…
1 year, 5 months ago
The Hidden Conversation Between the Immune System and Pregnancy: What It Means for Birth: Dr. Nardhy Gomez-Lopez
On average in the US 1 in 10 babies is born prematurely and, in many cases, the cause is unknown; although there could be many contributing factors, …
1 year, 5 months ago
The Surprising Role of Aspirin in Fighting Preterm Birth Risks: Conversation with Dr. Matthew Hoffman
Preterm birth is a significant problem in the world and affects one in 10 pregnancies in the US.
Any early birth anytime before 37 weeks. Could lead …
1 year, 6 months ago
Does Modern Medicine Underestimate the Power of the Placenta? Conversation with Dr. Mana Parast, Part II
Season 1 Episode 7
This week's episode is a continuation of my conversation about developing our skills to best use the placenta as a diary of intrauterine life.
Dr. Pa…
1 year, 6 months ago