Welcome to IVF Out Loud, I’m Alison and I’m sharing the humorous and heartbreaking conversations and stories from my infertility journey. Infertility is a deeply personal journey, but no one should journey alone and by speaking about my family’s experience I hope I can provide someone with a laugh, a cry and a community. I am not a medical professional, just a woman who’s been there. This podcast is not a substitute for a conversation with your medical professional.

In this episode I'll discuss an unexpected discovery in our IVF Journey. Spoiler alert, I’m a unicorn.

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Welcome to my first podcast of IVF Out Loud. I’m Alison. My partner and I are building our family using IFV. My goal with this platform is to share my experience with infertility, the conversations I wish I had known how to have, some of the more comical moments of our 9 year journey and really just create a community.  I know that I felt more than a little bit crazy and isolated on over our decade long journey.

I will share stories about our journey and include humor whenever possible. I will not spend any time on injections or medication. When we started this process, I was so frustrated by all the videos and talk around how the hormones and injections. Honestly, for me I felt uneven, unsettled and ‘crazy’ before I even started medication. I felt angry and emotional as the depth of the process unfolded. I wanted to hear stories of people that felt like I did, not someone who was hyperventilating over giving themselves a shot. I’m not minimizing how people feel, but the reality for me was I felt big feelings long before we even got to our IVF specialist. Impatience, frustration, anger, sadness, and so many more emotions that I directed at myself, my husband, and anyone around me. I wanted to create a pod cast about those stories, there are plenty of voices speaking about the physical discomfort, hormones ect. Movies, social media, and on and on. I want to fill a void that I felt.

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