IVF Before and After Podcast

Kay shares the ups and downs of ‘Day 4’ with the excitement of visitors and playing outside through to the reality all parents have to face – that someone else’s food always tastes better to children than the food they have at home.

This is an insight into a routine day that every parent will be able to identify with -it comes with both highs and lows which is a reflection of what it’s like being a parent every day.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Being up early can make a positive difference to the day.
• Sometimes you get to a point where you make a decision to do something – like clean the house, you are in the right frame of mind and you just want and need to get on with it.
• An opportunity to play with someone else can be the key to great extended play throughout the day.
• If the weather is good always get outside and play.
• At bedtimes, it’s important to have calming activities and time in preparation for bed.
• Sometimes your little ones can get up to something unexpected which is why my daughter is now known as ‘Miss Scarlet’ after she found a bottle of red nail varnish.

BEST MOMENTS

‘He wanted to watch TV, but it was OK because it was nice and calm’

‘She was calmly playing with her building blocks’

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IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

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In this episode, Kay gives an honest insight into the challenges she is facing as a Mum at the moment.

It’s easy for people to always give the impression that everything is going well but life with little ones is continually changing as they grow. What works one day may not work the next so being a Mum is always a balancing act. Kay shares how you can go from a day of desperation to a brighter one and the importance of accepting help even if it’s not the way you would have done it.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I’m really having a hard time being the Mum of twins
• We need to talk to each other and get through challenging times together.
• Often others you are close to don’t think about what they say or consider how it might make you feel.
• Sometimes basic is best.
• You can end up spending all of your time cleaning up after little ones who just continually get more things out.
• Little ones need to learn how to tidy up and why they need to do it for themselves.
• Sometimes when everything seems too much it’s about stepping out of yourself and asking for help.
• When help is offered you must learn to accept it even if it means things are not done in quite the same way.
• Someone else may have a solution that works even if it’s not the same as your solution.
• A challenging day can easily be followed by a brighter and better day.

BEST MOMENTS

‘I just left the house screaming because I don’t know what else I could have done’

‘I feel brighter and am looking forward to a better day’

‘I’m just a normal Mummy’

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IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

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Kay has been looking at ‘Pregnancy Miracle’ a publication that brings together the perspectives of western and eastern medicines and identifies practical steps that can be taken by anyone to improve the strength and function of those organs and functions involved in both conception and pregnancy.

Kay shares a balanced view of the book and its step by step program to getting pregnant naturally that will support individuals who are looking at the possibilities of this approach.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The book provides a program that will help people to get pregnant naturally.
• There is uncomplicated information that can help improve the strength and function of the organs that support pregnancy.
• The book approaches the challenges from both the perspective of western and eastern medicine.
• The book states it has worked for many who have followed its step by step program.
• You have to open your mind and take from it what you want and need.
• The program provides information and being part of it gives access to support.
• The pregnancy miracle book is marketed as being the most effective way to get pregnant through a step by step non-medical process.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It deals with the problems and challenges of conceiving and pregnancy’

‘You have to make your own decision about the book and its program’

‘The book says it can help anyone to get pregnant naturally’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

Pregnancy Miracle - Lisa Olson

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

In this episode, Kay looks at the benefits of acupuncture. As someone who had this treatment during her own fertility treatment, Kay offers both a personal view and great information about acupuncture and the role it can play in supporting good egg quality through increased blood flow.

Kay also discusses the importance of believing in the acupuncture treatment if you want to optimise it and the possible outcomes as part of your fertility treatment.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• There are benefits using acupuncture when you are treating a patient who is of low ovarian reserve and poor egg quality.
• It’s very effective at improving the blood flow to different areas of the body.
• The acupuncturist can target selected areas.
• Blood flow can be increased to the ovaries stimulating electrolytes and hormones.
• Dead cells are removed as part of the process and it can help improve egg quality.
• If egg quality is poor the chance of fertilisation is decreased.
• Increasing the quality of the egg improves the chance of fertilisation
• With acupuncture and herbal treatments, hormones can be re-balanced and menstruation regulated.
• Acupuncture can be effective in lowering stress levels making people better, stronger and more prepared for the journey ahead.

BEST MOMENTS

‘You have to believe in acupuncture to undertake it’

‘Acupuncture can help to improve egg quality’

‘Blood flow can be increased to a particular area using acupuncture’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

Kay contemplates, as every parent does, the answer to the question ‘Have I not given them enough? or have I given them too much?’

Parenting can be hard and Kay shares how in even a very short time small people can be both hugely challenging and hugely loving as they try to find themselves in the world.

There are days when every parent can feel broken by the experience and wonder what they can do to make things better and why they don’t seem to be able to meet the needs of their children but a family is an everchanging experience about learning and growing together and every day is different.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• I can’t meet his needs anymore and if I can’t meet his needs what is there that can be done?
• Nobody wants to admit that they have been pushed beyond their limits.
• No one wants to be the person who feels like a total failure.
• You can be left feeling a failure in one moment then cherished the next when they hold your face in their hands and kiss you gently.
• There is no manual and people keep saying it’s just a phase but it seems to be going on and on.
• He has a strange way of demanding what he wants, he can be rigid with rage but then he melts and skips down the stairs and is happy but Inside of me is still full of frustration.
• Have I not given them enough? Or have I given them too much?
• Parenting is very hard and today they have broken me but I need to learn how to get him through his anger and frustration.
• Everything is so hard but my love for them will never change and needs will have to be met.

‘BEST MOMENTS

‘Just saying no can cause a dispute with a 3-year-old and as he screams and hits out I’m trying to decide which battle I want to try and win’

‘This isn’t the first, the second or the third time this is a constant’

‘My love for them continues to grow with every day’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

In this episode Kay reflects on how lockdown is affecting lots of people in different ways and asks the question:

‘Has the pandemic and the lockdown just highlighted the loneliness for some?’

For many, it has been about coming together and community but if you are someone without family and friends it can be challenging watching the rest of the world getting together even if they are doing it whilst socially distancing.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Hearing about others looking after each other can be challenging if you don’t have any family or friends.
• It can make you feel very sad and angry.
• Everyone has a different way of coping and sometimes children can be the start for friendships but having children can also be isolating.
• When someone calls out that they are struggling make sure you answer the call.
• Be kind to each other you never know what is going on in someone else’s life.

BEST MOMENTS

‘She has one great friend but she lives too far away to see regularly’

‘She thought when she had her babies it would be the start of lots of mummy friends’

VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

Kay explains the huge significance and exactly why she knows what she was doing 4 years ago.

She shares her experience of IVF conception and what its truly like in this great episode that shares with honesty both the experience and what IVF actually means for those who struggle to conceive.

If you want it enough anything is possible and dreams do come true.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The new protocol for IVF was very daunting but with it was the possibility of making life.
• That was life in that small dish just waiting, those 2 air bubbles shot up into my uterus – that was conception.
• We continued on with our daily routine even though the day was not at all routine.
• I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
• The 25TH of May was a fabulous day in our lives when our 2 little air bubbles became part of our family.
• 4 years on we are so much happier but we have our 2 darlings and they are the future we must protect.
• IVF is emotionally and physically challenging and everyone’s journey is different and individual.
• Most people are unaware of the struggles some have to conceive.

BEST MOMENTS

‘We have two wonderful children conceived through IVF’

‘Anything is possible and dreams do come true’

‘We waited and waited while the eggs and the sperm got jiggy, jiggy in the petri dish’

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

Kay asked the community to let her know about their questions and in this ‘preview episode’ she is giving a sneak peek about what’s up and coming in the next weeks. The questions about IVF are wide-ranging and in upcoming episodes, Kay will be investigating both the big questions and the small, but still vitally important ones. Listen in and find out what you can look forward to hearing about.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Anyone contemplating or undertaking IVF will have many wide-ranging questions such as;

• How does IVF work?
• Why does it fail?
• Where in the country is it free?
• Where do people inject themselves during the treatment?
• Where was IVF invented?
• Does IVF work the second time around?
• What if the sperm count is low?
• Who is eligible for IVF?
• What should you
• What can you do when it doesn’t work?

BEST MOMENTS

‘I will investigate and find the answers for you’

‘As an IVF Mum, I know what it’s like’

‘There are lots of questions to answer’

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

In this episode of IVF Before and After, Kay shares a story from an anonymous source about the experience of being an NICU parent, having the joy of bringing a new baby into this world being immediately transformed into a world of anxiety and pain. Having a baby in intensive care is a horror that no parent wants to go through and is an experience that can cause PTSD symptoms for many years. By sharing this story, Kay hopes that those going through this experience can find comfort and hope in this horrible time.  

Post-natal depression is far more common in those that experienced difficultly during child birth, Kay hopes that we can all come together to create a support network to help each other though.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After

In this episode of IVF Before & After, Kay shares a blog from the Twins Trust Forum, celebrating parents of twins and triplets and the quirks associated with it, the instant communication that twins and triplets have from birth and the secret language that they hold. Double the effort reaps double the reward, with double the hugs and double the love! Twins and triplets will always have each other, and whilst they may be at each other’s throats sometimes, they have a lifetime bond that can never be broken. Watching their individual personalities form through the same upbringing can be a special thing to witness!

Being a parent of twins or more is an extraordinary experience, harbouring so many unique experiences and opening up so many opportunities! Kay explores all the different quirks and emotions that come with being a parent of multiples!

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IVF Before and After Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

IVF Before and After was founded by Kay Dempsey. She created IVF Before and After, after many years spent researching and practising every possible way to conceive with IVF. Kay has created a global community with the use of podcasts she will share the stepping stones to empower your mindset, fuel your body organically and support you along your fertility journey.

CONTACT METHOD

https://www.instagram.com/ivfbeforeandafter/

https://twitter.com/IVFBEFOREAFTER

https://www.facebook.com/IVF-Before-and-After