#315 | The Preeclampsia Puzzle: Misdiagnoses, Misconceptions and Prevention with Author Sarah Thompson
Down to Birth
Cynthia Overgard & Trisha Ludwig
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's actually like a diagnosis out there and a treatment. |
| 0:06.5 | It's not a technical diagnosis, but it's being used. |
| 0:10.3 | And it's called pre-eclampsia, which is not a thing. |
| 0:14.3 | I have a cook at plant the other day who got diagnosed with preeclampsia at 16 weeks because she had protein in her urine. |
| 0:19.9 | She had a kidney stone. 80% of all preeclampsia |
| 0:23.6 | cases could be preventable. How do you get more of glutathione in your life? So I think we're |
| 0:30.6 | overdosing on our B vitamins a lot because not everybody needs methyl folate. I'm sorry. Okay, we need a whole other episode now. I know, I know. |
| 0:40.1 | I have a lot of opposition to the blanket recommendation for women to be on aspirin every day. It just |
| 0:46.0 | sounds insane to me. And I resent that all of them are told there's just no risk to it. I mean, |
| 0:51.7 | there's no way there's zero risk. Yeah, and there was a research article |
| 0:55.8 | that did say being on baby aspirin increases the risk of postpartum hemorrhage. There you go. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm Cynthia Overgard, owner of hypnoborthing of Connecticut, childbirth advocate, and postpartum |
| 1:07.2 | support specialist. And I'm Tresha Ludwig, certified nurse midwife and international board certified lactation consultant. |
| 1:15.0 | And this is the Down to Birth Podcast. |
| 1:19.6 | Childbirth is something we're made to do, but how do we have our safest and most satisfying experience in today's medical culture? |
| 1:26.7 | Let's dispel the myths and get down to birth. |
| 1:35.9 | Well, first off, thanks for having me on again today, guys. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm really excited to jump on and talk about this topic. |
| 1:44.0 | And I know we had, we discussed talking about |
| 1:46.5 | this understanding preeclampsia because I feel like there is a lot of information out there on |
| 1:52.5 | preeclampsia, but it's also very confusing because preeclampsia is complicated and there isn't |
| 2:00.6 | just one cause. And everybody's journey to preeclampsia is complicated and there isn't just one cause. |
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