Doctors are starting to wait a few minutes and let the baby soak up the iron-rich cord blood.
Guest: Elizabeth Cook, director of the Mercy Birthing Center

This is Making Babies, a podcast all about pregnancy. Pregnancy can be such a confusing and anxious time when parents are completely focused on the health of the mother and baby. There are so many questions and so much to learn about all the recommendations and current trends in pregnancy and childbirth. We hope this podcast can offer some answers in a scientific and medically accurate way, and along the way provide some really interesting conversations. Host Blythe Bernhard is in her second pregnancy shares your curiosity and excitement about this incredible journey that is making babies.
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This is Making Babies, a podcast all about pregnancy. Pregnancy can be such a confusing and anxious time when parents are completely focused on the health of the mother and baby. There are so many questions and so much to learn about all the recommendatio

Making Babies

Doctors are starting to wait a few minutes and let the baby soak up the iron-rich cord blood. Guest: Elizabeth Cook, director of the Mercy Birthing Center

Making Babies - Episode 7: Cutting the cord: How long should baby keep their umbilical cord for maximum benefit?

Choices abound for what car seat to buy and installing them can be tricky. Libby  Anvender, a community education instructor at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and certified child passenger safety technician, shares some useful tips. And we hear from first-time dad Greg Jonsson, the Post-Dispatch breaking news editor, about searching for a seat and making sure it was installed correctly.

Choices abound for what car seat to buy and installing them can be tricky. Libby Anvender, a community education instructor at St. Louis Children’s Hospital and certified child passenger safety technician, shares some useful tips. And we hear from first-

Making Babies - The ins and outs of car seats - Episode 11

Making Babies - Episode 10: The pros and cons using nitrous oxide when delivering your baby. Dr. Patricia Bolster with Mercy.

Making Babies - Episode 10: Pros and cons using nitrous oxide during delivery

A discussion on the high cost of fertility treatments, success rates, and the controversial practice of creating embryos with genetic material from two mothers and one father.
Guest: Dr. Sherman Silber, director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis

Editor's note: Since the recording of this episode, the world's first baby has reportedly been born from an embryo containing genetic material from two mothers and one father. The fertility procedure, banned in the U.S., was performed in Mexico. Mitochondria from the mother's egg was replaced by that part of a donor woman's egg to prevent the baby from inheriting a fatal disease.

A discussion on the high cost of fertility treatments, success rates, and the controversial practice of creating embryos with genetic material from two mothers and one father. Guest: Dr. Sherman Silber, director of the Infertility Center of St. Louis Edit

Making Babies - Episode 7: Cutting the cord: How long should baby keep their umbilical cord for maximum benefit?

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