In this episode, I sit down with Melissa from Confetti and Vodka and we talk about her own infertility journey. 

Her husband had battles and overcame cancer, and they battled infertility together. 

From having to move out of the country to transferring sperm that was taken 10 years ago, she shares the trials that she went through.

Amidst it all Melissa shares how she was completely open about the journey she and her husband were going through and she expresses how that helped them so much in an otherwise lonely time of moving out of the country and going through all the things associated with infertility.

We also talk about having a life outside of your infertility journey and how that can be stressful in and of itself when we have to give up some of the things we love to focus on our infertility journey, but we also discuss how important it is to hold onto the things that bring us joy in life.

Topics Discussed:

• Why you should not keep your journey a secret.

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Quotes:

• “You’re going to make mistakes and you have to forgive yourself.”

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/confettiandvodka

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🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening, and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

Hello Beautiful 

In this episode, I sit down with Carrie Hauskens as she talks about her own personal infertility journey from struggling to get pregnant to her miscarriage and all the things in between.  She gives a raw account of how much taking care of your mental health plays a role in the whole process, and how her attitude shifted during this process.

We discuss the shift that takes place, physically, mentally, and even socially when we begin to change the steps of our journey towards a more healthy version of ourselves.  How our mindset changes and things that we used to think were normal, we discover are not normal, and we place so much expectation on ourselves of what we think we should be doing.

Carrie also talks about the decisions to leave her job and what a struggle that was at the time but how freeing and stress relieving it was on her once she committed to that decision.

Topics Discussed:

• How you begin to evaluate your relationships when dealing with infertility.

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Quotes:

• “When you’re ready to release the bitterness and anger, it’s a very scary place.”

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Website: https://www.bloomingwithcare.com/

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🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening, and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

Do you struggle with your fertility diet not working for you?  Do you have daily issues that may seem like small things, but are still annoyances that you are putting up with?  It could be that the diet you are on still has you eating foods that you are intolerant to, even if they are healthy.  We all have different foods that cause intolerances in us, and failing to recognize them can leave us frustrated. But finding out what foods we are intolerant to can be simple when gone about in the right away.  

We also deep dive into mindset and the effect that stress has on the body.  Even if we are on point with our food intake and diet, if our mindset is off, and our stress levels are high, our body can still be negatively impacted.  But the good news is when we get on the right diet for us, and practice self-care, and taking care of our thoughts, we can begin to live with less stress and feel better physically and mentally.

Ready to find the right Fertility Diet for you? http://www.findingfertility.co/fertilityfood

Topics Discussed:

• Intolerances and how they affect our day to day.

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Quotes:

• “Sometimes we haven’t given our diets enough time.”

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🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening, and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

HEllo Beautiful

In today’s episode, we are talking about everything your mom told you not to talk about. Sex, money and religion are those taboo topics that we are always taught to not bring up, but when it comes to navigating the infertility journey you have to dive into each of these three topics.  They are all interconnected and have to be addressed. 

When we are on our infertility journey we can begin to question our religion.  Beliefs and things we were raised believing can become very confusing when compared to what we are going through.  Because of this we can begin to question our faith and beliefs, and often the religious space doesn’t allow us to ask the difficult questions, but it is a necessity to do so in order to discover our truth.

Topics Discussed:

• Discovering your beliefs around money.

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Quotes:

• “Infertility affects every area of your life.”

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Connect with Devon Baeza:

Website: https://www.devonbaeza.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFertilityFinanceCoach

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TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok 

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Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening, and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

Working through our issues during infertility helps us become such a better mom.  In this episode I sit down with Jennifer Robertson as we talk about dealing with our  shit.  We tend to stuff down all the feelings and emotions that we go through during infertility. Rather than working through the emotion, we bury it and plow through to the next step.

But it’s so important to slow down and admit that it’s okay that things are not perfect.  It’s okay we are angry.  It’s okay to admit that we have emotions and feelings along this journey, and there isn’t some picture that we have to look like. 

Jennifer shares with us the heartbreak and the joy that she has experienced and why she believes that the heartbreak when dealt with and recognized can lead us to greater things and really build us to be better moms.

Topics Discussed:

• How consuming IVF can become.

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Quotes:

• “One day you wake up and can’t remember who you are any more.”

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• Website: https://www.findingfertility.co/

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Website: https://www.yourfertilityhaven.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/425418404879458/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msjenniferrobertson/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClikGpEjoBP-_OOIiktaZDA

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Connect with Monica over on 

Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG 

TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok 

🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW 🍍 

You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:

Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon 

🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣ 

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

Throughout history women were revered along with our traits and habits.  As time advanced that changed from a matriarchal society to a more patriarchal society.  Now we are just starting to reverse this trend and again place value in the matriarch approach.  

As women it’s so important for us to be in tune with our bodies and understand what it’s like to take care of ourselves.  In our fast paced world it can seem selfish to slow down and take time for our mental health, to enjoy the warmth of the sun on our skin or to take in the beauty around us.

In this episode Dr. Nikki Cohen sits down with us and helps us better understand our womanhood, and how to really get back into our feminine sides, and why that is so critically important not just for our well being but also for our fertility journey.

Topics Discussed:

• How infertility and autoimmune diseases make us feel like we are not in control of our bodies.

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Quotes:

• “With autoimmune disease it feels like your body hates you.”

Connect with us!

🍍🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/perfectfertilitydiet

🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with a Personalized Health Coaching:https://www.findingfertility.co/FertilityHealthCoaching

Connect with Monica over on 

Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG 

TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok 

🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW 🍍 

You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:

Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon 

🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣ 

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

Sometimes it can be overwhelming to know where to begin.  But it’s always good to break things back to the basics.  In this episode I dive into some of the first steps you should be taking.

The first thing I always recommend doing is beginning to remove your inflammatory foods.  This doesn’t have to be done all at once, but I do recommend choosing a couple to start off with.  Also we should question the supplements we are taking.  We shouldn’t be constantly popping supplements, because they are as their name implies, only meant to be used as a supplement to a healthy diet.

And the last thing I go over, which is super important, is our mental well being, and taking time for ourselves, connecting with our thoughts, and finding some type of activity that reduces stress and brings release for us.

Topics Discussed:

• Breaking down some of the simple things to start implementing.

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Quotes:

• “Supplements are usually over-used.”

Connect with us!

🍍🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/perfectfertilitydiet

🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with a Personalized Health Coaching:https://www.findingfertility.co/FertilityHealthCoaching

Connect with Monica over on 

Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG 

TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok 

🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW 🍍 

You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:

Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon 

🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣ 

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

In this episode I sit down with Blair Nelson as we both discuss our journeys through infertility.  We know that time can almost seem to stand still when we are trying to get pregnant, so how do we work through that especially when we keep getting an “undiagnosed infertility” response from doctors?

We often think the stress will go away once we see the two pink lines, but often the stress can increase at that point we are weighed down with even more worry and stress.  This is why it’s so important to begin to implement things that help with your stress levels, from meditation, acupuncture, mindset, and nutrition.  

We often turn to IVF because we think that is the only answer, but Blair and I really lay out how changing your habits that are self-sabotaging your efforts without even realizing it, are the first steps that should be taken on your infertility journey.

Topics Discussed:

• Western vs. Eastern medicine. 

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Quotes:

• “You have to figure out what foods do and don’t work for you.”

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Connect with Blair Nelson:

Website: https://fabfertility.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fabfertility

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fabfertility/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/blairnelson0538/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-k5N53ESnPVz-VXbsGTMQg

Fertility Rally: https://fertilityrally.com/

Fertility Rally Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fertilityrally/

Connect with us!

🍍🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/perfectfertilitydiet

🌺 Get Steps Closer to Getting & Staying Pregnant with a Personalized Health Coaching:https://www.findingfertility.co/FertilityHealthCoaching

Connect with Monica over on 

Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG 

TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok 

🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW 🍍 

You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:

Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon 

🎙 Subscribe on your favourite podcast platform:⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Apple: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYAPPLE⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣

Google Play: http://bit.ly/FINDINGFERTILITYGOOGLEPLAY⁣⁠⁣⁣⁣ 

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

🍍 Anything written or said about health and diet are my opinions, that I have formed over the years, through trial and error, study, reading, listening and observing. What worked for me, may not work for you. I am not a doctor, nutritionist or dietician and all medical advice should be gotten from a qualified professional. Product recommendations are based on what I used during my infertility journey or wish I had.

Unexplained infertility seems to be the blanket statement that many doctors like to throw over our infertility issues when they don’t know or understand what is going on. 

The good news is you don’t have to take that at face value. 

Today I am joined by Kela Smith who was told exactly that when she couldn’t get pregnant, and she shares her story of how she did not accept that answer and set out to educate herself.

It’s a scary place not knowing what is going on with our bodies, but we have so many resources available now to dig in and learn for ourselves. 

We get that changing your lifestyle habits and eating habits can be a bit overwhelming.  But Kela shares with us how making small daily changes that are simple and doable can lead us to new heights.

Kela also shares how even though she thought she was healthy and ate well, it still was different eating for fertility and what she did to adjust her former thoughts and lifestyles of health to fit her infertility journey.

Topics Discussed:

• Nutrition’s role in fertility.

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Quotes:

• “As long as you are doing something to rewire your brain it doesn’t matter what you call it.”

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Connect with us!

🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW🍍 You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:

Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon 

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Connect with Kela Smith:

Website: https://www.coachkela.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kela_healthcoach

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kela.robinson

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kela-robinson-smith-045a4967/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/kelahealthcoach/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT907FBq9X7frbCPpxlrJ2w

Often when we are going through the infertility journey we think that all the stress and worry will go away once we get pregnant or after we have children, but in reality that stress can become more difficult afterwards.

Which is why it is so critical that we deal with our mindset and our stress now. 

In this episode with Kezia Okafor, we dive into all the elements of the mind that try to play havoc with our infertility journey along with the rest of our life. 

We think that having a child is the answer and solution, and while that is what we strive for, our ultimate goal is to become a better and more whole person. 

That’s why it’s so important for us to take heed of how to better ourselves on this journey.

We talk about the ups and downs of navigating the mental space, dealing with friends and family who don’t understand what we are going through, and how to stand up to doctors when you know what they are telling you is wrong.

Topics Discussed:

• How no one talks about the mental pain when you are being treated for infertility.

Quotes:

• “Infertility can be a process where you discover yourself.”

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Connect with us!

🍍HELP SUPPORT THE SHOW🍍 You can shop for your favourite fertility support products over on:

Seeking Health:https://bit.ly/FFSeekingHealth & Amazon:http://bit.ly/FindingFertilityAmazon 

Connect with Kezia Ashley Okafor:

Website: https://fertilitypower.infertilitycounsellor.co.uk/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinfertilitycounsellor

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/infertility-counselor/id1464086822?i=1000476101792

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kezia_okafor