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Lily Be: Throwing Up Tamales

December 13, 2019

As a 16-year-old, Lily Be gets an unexpected education on the reproductive system.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Lily Be, Story Collider producer, reproduction, sex, pregnancy, education, Season 9

Jenn M: House Baby?

September 13, 2019

At 22 years old, Jenn Montooth is accepted to graduate school just as she discovers she's pregnant.

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In Health and Medicine Tags women's health, abortion, reproduction, pregnancy

Sara Sweet: Hope Is Certainly Not Enough

August 30, 2019

Struggling to conceive, Sara Sweet makes her third attempt at intrauterine insemination just before her family's Christmas gathering.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Sara Sweet, pregnancy, Season 9, family, infertility

Chris Wade: It Takes a Village

August 30, 2019

After finally getting together in their forties, Chris Wade and his wife are determined to have a baby -- even if it means following some unconventional advice.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Chris Wade, infertility, marriage, family, superstition, pregnancy, Season 9

Heather Williams: An Emotional Business

May 10, 2019

Heather Williams trades in her physicist labcoat for motherhood, and wonders if she can return.

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In Physics Tags Heather Williams, motherhood, physics, pregnancy, family, career, Season 9

Sarah Hird: My Emotional Bunker

April 5, 2019

Evolutionary biologist Sarah Hird's first pregnancy becomes a crisis in her scientific faith when doctors warn her that there may be something severely wrong with her baby.

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In Health and Medicine, Biology Tags Sarah Hird, pregnancy, motherhood, pregnancy complications, Season 9, women's health, UCONN

Michaella Thornton: The Grade AA, Beautiful, Golden Embryo of My Dreams

November 23, 2018

When Michaella Thornton shares her struggles with infertility with her bachelor farmer father, his response stuns her.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Michaella Thornton, fathers, motherhood, pregnancy, infertility, genetics, women's health, Season 8

Veronika Meduna: Turning Myself Inside Out

November 9, 2018

Science writer Veronika Meduna thought she never wanted to have children, but in her late thirties, she changes her mind.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Veronika Meduna, Season 8, infertility, pregnancy, journalism

Bianca Jones Marlin: This is Not the Way Beyoncé Made It Look

November 9, 2018

An expert in oxytocin, the hormone released during birth, Bianca Jones Marlin is determined to have a natural birth — even as the hours of labor add up…

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In Neuroscience, Health and Medicine Tags Bianca Jones Marlin, pregnancy, birth, neuroscience, Season 8

Cassandra Willyard: Better Safe than Sorry

September 14, 2018

Science writer Cassandra WIllyard is frustrated by the restrictions put on her during her pregnancy.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Cassandra Willyard, journalism, pregnancy, women's health

Veronica Ades: Motherhood

September 8, 2017

OB-GYN Veronica Ades tries to save a pregnant woman’s life in South Sudan, while struggling with her own feelings about motherhood.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Doctors Without Borders, Veronica Ades, South Sudan, doctor, medicine, gynecology, pregnancy, motherhood

Katharine Gammon: I'm Not in Labor

May 12, 2017

Science writer Katharine Gammon thinks she’s gone into labor, but her doctor says she hasn’t.

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In Health and Medicine Tags Katharine Gammon, pregnancy, labor, journalism

Rachel Yehuda: Cause and Effect

September 23, 2016

To discover why some survivors of trauma experience PTSD and some don't, scientist Rachel Yehuda must convince a community of Holocaust survivors to let her study them.

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In Psychiatry Tags Rachel Yehuda, psychiatry, research, trauma, PTSD, Holocaust, Cleveland, Judaism, pregnancy, women in STEM

MaryAnn Wilbur: Two Pregnancies

July 22, 2016

While she's 26 weeks pregnant, OB-GYN MaryAnn Wilbur treats a woman who is also 26 weeks pregnant -- and about to go into labor.

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In Health and Medicine Tags MaryAnn Wilbur, doctor, gynecology, pregnancy, medicine

Hillary Rea: A Standard Pregnancy

March 15, 2015

Hillary Rea enjoys her job as a "standard patient" helping to train medical students, until she's asked to sub in on a birth gone quite wrong.

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Tags Hillary Rea, pregnancy, medicine, medical training, medical school, acting, season 5

Tara Clancy: Adventures In Babymaking

January 28, 2015

The joys and dangers of getting pregnant for Tara Clancy and her wife.

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Tags Tara Clancy, pregnancy, reproduction, season 5

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