Ep 168 Pregnancy: Act 1

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Content Warning: This episode includes mentions of miscarriage, pregnancy loss, pregnancy complications, traumatic birth experiences, and other potentially disturbing topics related to childbirth, pregnancy, and the postpartum period.

With this and the next three episodes, we’re delivering a four-part series on pregnancy, trimester by trimester. We start our series with a tour through the history of the pregnancy test: how and when did these sticks with the two blue lines become the everyday at-home medical device they are today? How has their introduction changed the knowledge that women have about their bodies and who has access to that knowledge? Then we explore the biology of what happens at the very beginning of pregnancy with some light embryology, exploring the earliest steps of implantation, placentation, and what could happen if this process doesn’t go as expected.

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0:00.0	We want to start with a disclaimer that throughout this series, we feature explanations and stories that include some heavy material, including early pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and other traumatic experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
0:17.0	It was the morning in my son's fourth birthday party, and I was feeling just not like myself.
0:23.5	I was really tired, which is pretty abnormal for me, especially in the morning time, and my breasts were pretty tender and was feeling a little nauseous.
0:33.3	So I started doing the math in my head, just thinking about, you know, when I could have possibly
0:38.9	became pregnant, if that is the case.
0:42.1	And I started doing the math, and my husband's a pilot, so I know exactly when he's home
0:47.4	and the days that we've had sex.
0:50.4	And that's when I was like, wow, I could be pregnant right now. And it was only four weeks,
0:57.0	so I was due to get my menstrual cycle that that week. So it was very early. So I asked him to go to
1:04.5	the store because we needed to get ice for the birthday party and pick up the cake. So I said,
1:09.6	hey, while you're there, can you go get a pregnancy
1:12.7	test? And he was like, okay, you know, if that's what you need, then that's what you need.
1:18.3	So remember, he came home. He was putting the drinks in the cooler and I went into the spare
1:26.2	bathroom and I took the pregnancy test and it came up right away that I was
1:30.7	pregnant and in that moment I had just this realization of wow like I'm having another baby and I went
1:41.9	outside and I told my husband that I was pregnant and we were so excited and we're like, wow, we're really doing this.
1:50.4	And it was really neat because this whole party that we had there, we probably had about 30 people with kids and parents.
1:59.3	And we were the only two people that knew in that moment that
2:02.3	I was pregnant. And it felt really special. But then after the party was pretty died down,
2:08.7	us and a couple other family friends were all sitting by a fire that we had in our backyard,
2:14.9	a little campfire. And there was a baby there.
2:18.7	And my son had a really good friend.
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