Erin Kiernan is a news anchor and journalist for WHO 13 News in Des Moines, Iowa. Erin is the recipient of several regional Edward R. Murrow Awards for her reporting work. Erin earned a National Edward R. Murrow Award in 2012 with photojournalists Brandon McCauley and Randy Schumacher for a story about Iowan Mark Block overcoming impossible odds to climb Sears Tower in Chicago. Erin has also received regional Emmy Awards in the feature, consumer, and instructional categories.

Listen to Erin as she discusses with Ellen and Jenn:

• Her background and journaling career.

• Flashing back to being 16 and finding out she was pregnant.

• Telling her parents.

• Seeing her doctor and considering her options.

• Finding and meeting the adoptive family for her child in a surprising way.

• Giving birth to her son and the complications.

• Her relationship with her son.

• How her life continued after the adoption.

• Getting married and trying to grow their family.

• The start of their infertility journey.

• The ups and downs of her infertility journey but the happy endings of the birth of their children.

• Becoming an advocate for adoption.

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