Q&A: The Evidence on Choline and How to Prepare for Precipitous Labor
Pregnancy Podcast
Vanessa Merten
4.5 • 948 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we explore two questions. First, we break down the role of choline in pregnancy, including its benefits for fetal brain development. We review the current evidence and provide practical tips on how to ensure you’re getting enough choline from your diet or supplements. Next, we dive into precipitous labor, when labor progresses rapidly—and discuss what you can do to prepare for a fast labor.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. I'm so excited for this first |
| 0:17.2 | Q&A episode. You can look forward to these episodes every Wednesday in addition to our Sunday deep dives this is an opportunity |
| 0:26.3 | for you to get your specific questions answered and it's in a format that can help other expecting |
| 0:32.4 | parents. |
| 0:33.6 | I got such an amazing response to the request for questions |
| 0:37.8 | for Q&A episodes. |
| 0:39.6 | If you have not received a reply, |
| 0:41.4 | I'm still working through some of those emails and I |
| 0:44.5 | really appreciate that you guys are excited for these episodes. These Q&A |
| 0:49.7 | episodes are going to be shorter, a little less formal, |
| 0:53.0 | and they'll feature a short ad at the beginning and end of the episode. |
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| 1:15.6 | slash premium. In today's episode we're exploring two questions. First we're |
| 1:21.8 | going to break down the role of Colleen and pregnancy, including its benefits for |
| 1:26.4 | fetal brain development. We will review the current evidence and give practical tips on how to ensure that you're getting enough |
| 1:33.7 | Colleen from your diet or supplements. And then we're going to dive into a question |
| 1:38.9 | on precipitous labor. That's when labor progresses very quickly and we're going to talk about what you can do to prepare |
| 1:46.1 | for a fast labor. You can find the transcript and links resources everything for this episode at pregnancy |
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