Welcome to Natural MD Radio, episode 119.

Healthy thyroid function is essential to the physical and emotional health of pregnant women and to new moms.

It's also critical for baby's health.

This is such an important topic that I've brought back

this popular podcast episode for an encore. In it I discuss the risks of undiagnosed thyroid problems

for mom and baby, how thyroid function changes during pregnancy,

and why it's important for all pregnant women to get complete thyroid testing, something

that not all doctors do.

You'll also learn how to advocate for yourself to get the testing that you do need

and the steps to take once you have your results back.

To read the article that accompanies this episode go to avivaram.com

forward slash 119 that's number 119. 19. to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools

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I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. After three miscarriages in her fourth pregnancy, Tara was finally in her third trimester, so excited and even surprised to have

gone that far with a healthy pregnancy, to find herself going into labor six weeks early.

Thankfully, her beautiful baby mica,

though premature did not need any special medical care,

just had to stay in the hospital a little bit longer and

Tara was greatly relieved until she realized that she wasn't producing

breast milk enough to feed her baby and help her baby grow.

So even with the help of several lactation consultants both in the hospital and after,

she just couldn't get the milk going and finally gave the baby formula and this was

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