Couples Chatting About Infertility

Come and hang with me while I chat with Jasmine. I loved this conversation with her so much- she's such an inspiration. Jasmine talks about her almost 6 year infertility journey and opens up about her doctor telling her that she had less than a 1% chance to conceive her own children, and that she should look into adoption or an egg donor. We talk a lot about that "timeline" we all picture for ourselves and what happens when things don't go exactly as we may have planned. We also talk about the feelings around the lack of control and the life you envisioned that's not happening, feeling lost, helpless and having no definite answers, and how it all really starts to consume you. She shares her story about the fight she endured to get to her two miracle children, and how the rollercoaster ride of it all can truly take its toll on you. We talk about how infertility changes you to the core, all while learning so much from the journey itself. Jasmine is amazing and you'll love getting to hear everything she has to say. She's an incredible warrior that continues to inspire people in so many different ways. She even shares more about her Freedom Method fertility training and how she is helping women find control in their own fertility journeys. 

Connect with Jasmine on Instagram:

@jazzkatat

Come and hang with me while I chat with Jessica. Jessica shares all about Gift of Parenthood, a charitable grant program dedicated to helping couples and individuals struggling with infertility. She also opens up about her own personal infertility story to get her son, and why this amazing organization holds such a special place in her heart. Gift of Parenthood has one mission – to help couples and individuals struggling with infertility  achieve their dreams of becoming parents through fertility assistance grants. They give grants ranging from $8,000 to $15,000 that are available four times a year. Jessica shares more about how this amazing company was started and the purpose behind their mission to help people achieve the family they have always dreamed of. If you are struggling with infertility and interested in learning more about their grants, check out their website at https://giftofparenthood.org. The next grant deadline is December 24th.

Connect on Instagram:

@giftofparenthoodgrants

Sit back with us while we chat with Fiona. She's so sweet and such an incredible human being. She keeps it real and honest about all the ways infertility really takes a toll on you and your life. She talks about getting pregnant very easily with her adorable son, Sully, as soon as they started trying and how she’s struggled with secondary infertility for years while trying to give him a sibling and expand their family. She talks a lot about how secondary infertility feels like it comes out of nowhere, what it's like to think you'll have an easy time getting pregnant for the next go-around and how it feels when it doesn't end up happening that way. Fiona opens up about her experience with multiple losses and how it’s affected her. We talk a lot about gratitude and grief, how they can co-exist and how that can sometimes be a really weird feeling to try and navigate. We even talk a lot about going through the process of mourning the life you once thought you'd have before infertility. We get into so many good things around the highs and lows of infertility and Fiona is just so amazing.

Connect with Fiona on Instagram:

@fitfertilitea

Sit back and relax with us while we chat with Josephine. Josephine is the most incredible human being! She’s a meditation and mindfulness coach, specializing in infertility and parenthood mindfulness. She is also the host of the podcast, Responding to Life. She teaches simple and practical coping mechanisms for stress, anxiety and loss to help improve the balance of mind, body and spirit for those with health and fertility struggles and other life challenges. She is truly such an incredible woman. She opens up about her journey with infertility and miscarriage, and also how she built her family through international adoption, IVF and surrogacy. We talk about the darkness that really weighs on you when going through infertility, and how Josephine was able to continue persevering throughout all the hard times she faced. As shitty as infertility is, we get into so much good stuff throughout this amazing conversation together.

Connect with Josephine on Instagram: @josephineratluri

Come hang with us while we chat with Amy. Amy is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oova. She has her PhD in Biomedical Science with a focus on Genetics and Genomics. Amy had the drive and passion to create Oova after struggling through her own 18 month journey to become pregnant. Oova is the only at-home test that measures the hormones, luteinizing hormone and progesterone. It pinpoints your fertile window and confirms ovulation just by using one test. This conversation was such a pleasure to have with Amy. She has created the most amazing tool that is accessible to so many different women no matter where they are throughout their journey. Oova gives you access to your own personalized hormone readings, gives nutrition and wellness tips and can even log personal data like blood flow and sleep. Amy opens up about how she dealt with irregular cycles her entire life, and how doctor's did everything from putting her on birth control to misdiagnosing her with PCOS without any testing to prove that she actually had it. She talks about meeting her husband and instantly becoming best friends by the time they went on their second date together. We talk about their journey with trying to get pregnant and how she couldn't imagine going through it with anyone but her husband. Amy goes into detail about what drove her to really create Oova, and how she was able to turn a thought into a reality. She is such an amazing and inspirational woman and we are so thankful for all that she is continues to do.

Connect with Amy on Instagram: @oovalife

Check out Oova: https://oova.life

Come and hang with us while we chat with Allison and Russ. They are such an incredible couple and their love for each other is just so obvious. We always love getting to connect with couples who have gone through or are going through infertility and there's something so special about sharing this space with other people. After going through infertility and both getting our miracle baby boy's, it's nice to be able to chat with other couples who also understand that infertility is a part of you forever. We just felt completely validated and connected with so much of what they both shared. Allison and Russ are so genuine and honest with their feelings around how infertility has affected their life. And it’s always nice to hear our husbands open up about their feelings around some of these devastating, emotionally draining experiences that we really go through like Tim and Russ did. Allison and Russ open up about their relationship and share about how their first positive pregnancy test literally changed their lives forever. They have an incredibly beautiful story that instantly will leave you with chills. It is so deeply inspiring and just a small reminder that there is truly always hope within your own journey. They are now parents to the most adorable little boy and we wish them nothing but the best as they continue their journey.

Connect with Allison on Instagram:

@be.the.boost

Come and hang with us while we chat with Maiclaire and Greg. They are such a beautiful couple inside and out. They open up about what it was like getting pregnant naturally, right after their honeymoon, at 41 and 47 years old. We talk about how they experienced a completely traumatizing miscarriage around 11 weeks which left then feeling so alone and completely unprepared. Maiclaire and Greg share their experience with continuing to try naturally, ending up at a fertility clinic and starting with IUI, experiencing another miscarriage and then moving on to IVF. Maiclaire was diagnosed with diminished ovarian reserve and poor egg quality but we also talk about how Greg was the one to push their doctors to do more testing on him. We chat about the book that Maiclaire wrote, “Prequel to Parenthood” to try and raise awareness about infertility and miscarriage and how amazing she is for finding strength to do this while in a dark place in her life. They are such a strong couple. We talk about where they currently are in their IVF cycle and we are rooting so unbelievably hard for them.

Connect with Maiclaire on Instagram:

@prequeltoparenthood

Maiclaire's book: https://www.amazon.com/Prequel-Parenthood-Infertility-Maiclaire-Smith/dp/B085RVPWYX

Come and hang with me while I chat with Daizi. She is an incredible human being, wife and mother to her daughter, Mia. She opens up about easily conceiving Mia on their honeymoon and soon after battling secondary infertility as they decided it was time to expand their family. We talk about her experience with recurrent miscarriages all the way up to her recent IVF journey that's consisted of two egg retrievals. Daizi opens up about how she has been able to cope throughout the highs and lows of her infertility journey. She shares details about her first and second egg retrievals, and how she completely switched up her mindset after being discouraged from her first round results. We talk about how the power of our minds is so important as we navigate our own experiences with infertility. We also talk about how we cope and grieve differently than our husbands, how your sex life changes throughout infertility, treatments and so much more. Hearing Daizi share her story is so powerful. She's honest and so real in everything. Daizi is so incredible!

Connect with Daizi on Instagram:

@journey_to_our_miracle