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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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