76 ways to change the body of pregnancy and childbirth
300,000 Birth data reveal how they change and delivering a baby

Women’s bodies have great physiological changes that can last more than a year from birth during pregnancy.
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Biologists have built one of the most accurate photographs of changes that occur after women’s bodies pregnancyClose and learn about 300,000 physiological measurements of more than 300,000 births.
Giant study1The blood, urine, and other anonymized tests taken for more than a year of blood, urine and pregnancy, reveals the scale of the toll in the body taken by the body and childbirth. Research was published Science advances March 26th.
The study suggests that periods of the body is much longer than the trend of people to acquire, says Jennifer Hall investigates the University University’s London Reproductive Health. There is hope for the society that you return after childbirth, he said. “This is not like biological evidence.”
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The results also suggest identifying women with a risk of some common complications of pregnancy – including the state of blood pressure Pre-Eklampsia and Gestural diabetes – Before conception. Today, these conditions are diagnosed during pregnancy.
Data strength
Researchers used anonymized data to the largest health suppliers in Israel, and spread the period provided by 2003 to 2020. To build a picture of a typical pregnancy, the medications used the test results only for women aged 20-35.

The group brought together 76 ordinary tests. Including cholesterol, immune cells, red blood cells, blood cells, inflammation and health including the health of liver and metabolism – 4.5 months earlier and 18.5 months after childbirth. This allows them to establish the average values for each test once a week.
“I breathed, that every test has been a great dynamic profile, because it was so cultivated a week, and it’s never seen,” says Uri Alon, the biologist of the Weizmann Institute Rehovot, Israel, study.
Researchers were discovered, in the first month after birth, 47% of 76% stabilized in advance from the values of the conception. But 41% of indicators lasted for more than 10 weeks to stabilize. These included several measures of the liver function and the liver and liver health indicator of the liver and liver health ‘), which would last about six months, took a year. The remaining 12% took 4-10 weeks to stabilize.
It was established by various measures – inflammation and various blood health indicators, but it was not returned to previous levels after 80 weeks after the study was completed. Long-end duration is the question of future research in the behavior that changes after pregnancy and births or the child arriving after reaching.
Researchers were classified in four groups according to their careers. Some measures rose during pregnancy, then they threw post-parpotum; Others did the opposite. Others did not yet to fill in conceptual levels that have not fallen or rising: they deliver pre-seen values in their pregnancy at the pre-viewed level. That could be explained that the body is “excessive” for change.
Pre-visual changes
Scientists found different changes in the body before the conception. Some of them – reducing a marker in swelling and including those who increase in folic acid – they were beneficial. Researchers attribute to the trend that people live to take accessories and live healthier.
The researchers also developed complications that did not diagnose until pregnancy were isolated women’s tests, including diabetes and pre-esplamposis, state-threatening hypertension and life threatening. These women have had different profiles compared to the tests of healthy pregnancies, and in some cases, the differences were the most notable before the vision.
This finding is exciting, because the hall says that humans can be identified and helped, which endanger these conditions.
The findings show the power of anonymized biomedical information to discover fresh approaches, says Alon. His team is taking a similar view that is studying Menopause. “We can request any statistical question we want,” he noted. “It’s like a paradise.”
This article reproduces with permission and has been First posted On March 26, 2025.