36. What you need to know about your thyroid in pregnancy.
Issues with your thyroid are common in the baby-making years. In Australia about 2-3% of pregnant women are hypo or hyperthyroid. Then there is post-partum thyroditis. This is something that happens to 1 in 20 women after their baby is born. This needs careful assessment because the signs and symptoms can be dismissed as 'just part of having a newborn' or it can look like postnatal depression.In this podcast we talk about:What the thyroid gland does in our bodyWhat is hypo and hyperthyroidism...