Episode 1 (Part 1) - My Fertility Journey
EPISODE 1:
My Fertility Journey - The Story I’ve Never Shared Before: Part 1
Show Notes:
I've told pieces of my story to clients for years. "I've been there." "I get it." But I've never told the whole thing, start to finish - until now.
This episode is Part 1 of my fertility story, and it's a big one. I'm talking chemical pregnancies I didn't even understand at the time, an ectopic pregnancy so rare (1 in 65,000!) that it grew on my ovary instead of my tube, a procedure that ended up damaging my uterus without me knowing for years, and three rounds of IVF where I kept getting blamed - for my age, my eggs, my "stress" - while nobody tested the one thing that turned out to actually matter.
I share this not because I want sympathy, but because I know so many of you are living some version of this right now. The rabbit holes. The clinics that don't call you back. The doctors who look at you like a number instead of a person. The moment you ask "when can we try again" five minutes after finding out you lost a pregnancy - and feeling guilty for asking it (by the way - it's the most common question there is).
In this episode:
How my "healthy" lifestyle didn't protect me from infertility - and why that surprised me
What a chemical pregnancy actually is (nobody explained it to me either)
The ectopic pregnancy that almost cost me my life, and the surgery that followed
The procedure I agreed to without fully understanding what it would mean for my uterus
Three rounds of IVF, and the thing nobody tested until a doctor in the US finally did
Why I started questioning "the way it's always done" - and started digging for real answers
This one ends on a cliffhanger, because life did too. By the end of this episode, I'm out of options I thought I had - and about to step into something I never expected. Part 2 picks up right where this leaves off.
If any part of this is your story too - you're not alone in this. That's the whole reason this podcast exists.
Don't miss Part 2 - hit subscribe/follow wherever you're listening so it lands right in your feed the second it's live. Trust me, you won't want to wait to find out what happens next.
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Helpful Timestamps:
00:00 My Fertility Journey
06:53 Miscarriage
11:55 Ectopic Pregnancy Scare
15:20 Ovarian Ectopic and Surgery
20:47 Essure and IVF Begins
25:09 Seeking Help in US
36:02 Adoption Considered
38:54 Choosing Surrogacy Path