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Pregnancy
A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Pregnancy.
Talks about Pregnancy
04:55
Jacques S. Abramowicz
How does ultrasound work?
4 minutes 55 seconds
05:25
TED-Ed
The surprising effects of pregnancy
5 minutes 25 seconds
15:07
Wanda Irving
How the US medical community fails Black mothers
15 minutes 7 seconds
04:13
Kay Read
A day in the life of an Aztec midwife
4 minutes 13 seconds
10:40
Henna-Maria Uusitupa
How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health
10 minutes 40 seconds
15:17
Elizabeth Howell
How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy
15 minutes 17 seconds
06:16
Alexandra Sacks
A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
6 minutes 16 seconds
04:35
Kate Slabosky
The three different ways mammals give birth
4 minutes 35 seconds
06:44
Zubaida Bai
A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world
6 minutes 44 seconds
16:35
Moshe Szyf
How early life experience is written into DNA
16 minutes 35 seconds
12:25
Miriam Zoila Pérez
How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help
12 minutes 25 seconds
04:00
NWHunter
How do contraceptives work?
4 minutes
06:42
Nassim Assefi and Brian A. Levine
How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works
6 minutes 42 seconds
15:35
Wendy Chung
Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)
15 minutes 35 seconds
14:16
Jonathan Eisen
Meet your microbes
14 minutes 16 seconds
17:48
Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer
The toxic baby
17 minutes 48 seconds
See all talks on Pregnancy