Interview with Dr. Perez the OBGYN: High Risk Pregnancies, Genetic Screenings, & More!

Mommy Labor Nurse

Liesel Teen

Parenting, Kids & Family

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, my friend Marta and I went over some important topics related to high risk pregnancies, genetic screenings, inductions, and more!

Here are the questions we go over!

1. Let’s talk about preconception visits. Are they necessary and what exactly does one entail?

2. Genetic screening tests - pros, cons, how invasive, what does it tell you?

3. High risk pregnancies - why you do NST’s? What else do you do during a high risk pregnancy?

4. Pros and cons of induction?

5. How are OB’s trained? What kind of places do you all work?

6. How do you find a provider who you can trust?

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About Dr. Marta Perez

Dr. Marta Perez is a practicing OB-GYN in Jacksonville, Florida. In addition to a busy practice taking care of women of all ages, delivering babies, and performing surgery, she enjoys spending time with her fiance and puppy, running, yoga, cooking, reading, and creating educational content for my IG to help women live their happiest, healthiest lives.

You can learn more about Marta here:

Instagram: @Marta Perez
Website: drmartaperez.com

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast episode number 29.
0:05.0	Hey guys, hope everybody is doing good out there.
0:09.0	This week I have an expert interview for you guys,
0:12.0	my friend Marta Perez. Dr Perez came on she is an
0:15.9	OBGYN from Jacksonville Florida and she answered some really awesome questions
0:21.2	some questions that I could not answer.
0:24.0	We talked about preconception visits, whether they're necessary and what exactly one entails. And then we talked about genetic screenings I had a lot of
0:37.2	questions about that that is something that is almost foreign to me so I can't give like great advice on it so I'm glad she was
0:47.5	able to come on and explain about genetic testing the pros and the cons and how invasive and all that good stuff.
0:55.0	We talked about high-risk pregnancies, why we do NSTs, inductions, how obstetricians are trained and how you can find a provider who you can trust.
1:08.0	It was a really great episode full of lots of great information if you are currently pregnant or currently trying to get pregnant definitely tune in
1:17.6	Side note how is it already may you guys I was doing my calculations I was just like calculating and I only
1:27.2	have three months until this baby is born like that is blowing my mind that I'm
1:31.1	already six months almost seven months pregnant.
1:34.5	And yeah, it's the beginning of May.
1:37.1	I'm due August 1st.
1:39.0	So that is three months and who knows if I go into labor at 37 or 38 or 39 weeks I don't know.
1:45.0	So yeah it just kind of like caught up with me all of a sudden and it was like a
1:51.8	reality check so yeah side note I can't believe I'm already
1:57.9	almost 28 week 27 weeks pregnant all right let's get into today's episode.
2:03.2	You're listening to the
2:07.0	mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, where we firmly believe in the power of education when it
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