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Pregnancy

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Pregnancy.

Talks about Pregnancy

12:42
Ellen Trachman

What happens to people's donated eggs and sperm after they die?

12 minutes 42 seconds
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
14:57
Wanda Irving

How the US medical community fails Black mothers

14 minutes 57 seconds
04:13
Kay Read

A day in the life of an Aztec midwife

4 minutes 13 seconds
10:31
Henna-Maria Uusitupa

How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health

10 minutes 31 seconds
15:07
Elizabeth Howell

How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy

15 minutes 7 seconds
06:06
Alexandra Sacks

A new way to think about the transition to motherhood

6 minutes 6 seconds
04:35
Kate Slabosky

The three different ways mammals give birth

4 minutes 35 seconds
06:35
Zubaida Bai

A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world

6 minutes 35 seconds
16:25
Moshe Szyf

How early life experience is written into DNA

16 minutes 25 seconds
12:16
Miriam Zoila Pérez

How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help

12 minutes 16 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
15:20
Wendy Chung

Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)

15 minutes 20 seconds
14:06
Jonathan Eisen

Meet your microbes

14 minutes 6 seconds
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