What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights Paulette Kamenecka

I talk to a woman who shares the story of her transformative births:
 in particular :
how the postpartum and aftermath of the second birth changed the way she viewed herself and her career. 

Its an impactful and inspirational story that I think many of us can relate to. What follows is the first part of our conversation.
hyperemesis and anxiety
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767058.2022.2089550
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1471-0528.14180

affect of fetal sex on pregnancy outcome
https://bsd.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13293-020-00299-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75969-8
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2017.00144/full
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Today we'll talk with Dr. Carl Weiner, MD, MBA

He has been working on  developing testing that can PREDICT PREMATURITY and EARLY ONSET PREECLAMPSIA as early as 12 weeks into the pregnancy.

*If it is detected, WHAT can be done?

*What  are his hopes for the FUTURE of PREGNANCY

You can find Dr. Weiner here: https://www.creighton.edu/campus-directory/weiner-carl-p

In this week's episode we hear the rest of Hannah's story: 

*we hear about the premature birth of her son 

* how she manages his care during his long stay in the NICU

and
*how he's doing now.

We also hear more from Dr. Weiner, who is working on a test that can predict both prematurity and early onset preeclampsia to try to prevent these issues from arising in a pregnancy. 

We pick up where we left off last week; Hannah has checked into the hospital at 23 weeks five days because she's having contractions and doesn't know if this is the birth or Braxton Hicks..

In today's episode I speak with a woman who was very much caught off guard by a condition called PPROM--preterm premature rupture of membranes when she was 22 weeks along.

She talks about how she managed all the twists and turns of her experience, and despite all the hard things that happened, many things made her feel lucky.

We also hear from an OB/scientist who is working on a test that can be used to predict premature birth, among other things, long before it arrives. 

JAMA article about NICU policy
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2815359

Find Dr. Carl Weiner's work here: https://www.creighton.edu/campus-directory/weiner-carl-p

In today's episode we hear the rest of Corinne's story.
In particular: 
*What she learned in her repeated trips to the ER
*What she took away from the challenging things she experienced.
*What she'd do differently next time

.We'll also hear from Dr. Chapa, a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology at Texas A&M College of medicine, who shares some of his expertise about pregnancy and hypertension.
You can find his podcast, Clinical Pearls, here

In today's episode :

we hear the story of a first time mother who has a by the book pregnancy which slides off the tracks in delivery and postpartum.

In this first part of our conversation, she shares:

* how she and her husband managed the uncertainty that seemed to come without much warning.

We'll also hear from a fantastic OB (Dr. Hector Chapa) who gives a wider medical context to this story and helps us understand gestational hypertension that appears after delivery. 
Catch Dr. Chapa's podcast, Clinical pearls here