July 12, 2024

Navigating a Challenging Fertility Journey: Hope, Struggles, and Resilience 🦩 Podcast Discovery Call Part 1

37 minutes

"When you feel like you have zero answers, it's easy to lose hope, but sometimes you have to keep searching and trying different things."

Topics Discussed:

🦩 Financial and emotional challenges of IVF.

🦩 Struggles with relationships and setting boundaries.

🦩 The fear of judgment and feeling labeled by infertility.

🦩 Importance of specific medical tests for antibodies and natural killer cells.

🦩 The reflection of childhood experiences on fertility struggles.

Are you “completely healthy” but still dealing with the infertility nightmare? Have you tried what seems like everything from IUI to IVF but still not successful in your fertility journey?

In this episode of the Finding Fertility podcast, we discuss the mental and emotional challenges that come with fertility struggles. Our guest shares her six-year-long fertility journey, enduring every test and intervention available without clear answers.

Listen in to learn about the heartbreak that comes with chemical pregnancies and the overwhelming experience of IVF, especially financially. You will also learn the importance of staying hopeful in the face of constant disappointment and pressure to remain supportive of others.

"You can have all the support in the world, but sometimes it's just not enough."

Episode Highlights:

[02:39] Our guest shares her six-year-long fertility journey, her experiences with IUI and IVF, chemical pregnancies, and the financial challenges of IVF.

[07:40] She reflects on the emotional difficulties of IVF, the impact of hormones, and the strain her fertility journey has put on some of her relationships.

[11:49] She describes the deeper emotional triggers related to her infertility and how different friends' pregnancies affect her.

[13:35] The fear of judgment and the label of infertility that most women dealing with infertility experience.

[15:57] She describes her busy lifestyle, high-achieving nature, and the possibility of natural killer cells.

[24:14] The potential underlying health issues that might not be apparent even when you’re seemingly healthy.

[29:33] She talks about her childhood, childhood experiences, and how they might have contributed to her fertility blocks.

Full transcripts over on the blog:

Let's Do This Together 💚

Monica

🌺 Book Your Discovery Call Today here: https://calendly.com/findingfertility/discoveryconsultation?month=2022-10

🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide

Connect with Monica over on

Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG

TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok

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

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

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0BMtwCvdyR4aJyfSfcKh6i

Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL3RoZWluZmVydGlsZWRpYWdub3Npcy9mZWVkLnhtbA?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0pKGr_Jr5AhWono4IHZY8B4gQ9sEGegQIARAC

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Fertility/dp/B08K59YSHP/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2550BHUS4E039&keywords=finding+fertility+podcast&qid=1645232300&sprefix=finding+fertility+podcast%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-2

🍍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

🍍

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.

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July 12, 2024

Navigating a Challenging Fertility Journey: Hope, Struggles, and Resilience 🦩 Podcast Discovery Call Part 1

37 minutes

Navigating a Challenging Fertility Journey: Hope, Struggles, and Resilience 🦩 Podcast Discovery Call Part 1

"When you feel like you have zero answers, it's easy to lose hope, but sometimes you have to keep searching and trying different things."

Topics Discussed:

🦩 Financial and emotional challenges of IVF.

🦩 Struggles with relationships and setting boundaries.

🦩 The fear of judgment and feeling labeled by infertility.

🦩 Importance of specific medical tests for antibodies and natural killer cells.

🦩 The reflection of childhood experiences on fertility struggles.

Are you “completely healthy” but still dealing with the infertility nightmare? Have you tried what seems like everything from IUI to IVF but still not successful in your fertility journey?

"You can have all the support in the world, but sometimes it's just not enough."

Episode Highlights:

[02:39] Our guest shares her six-year-long fertility journey, her experiences with IUI and IVF, chemical pregnancies, and the financial challenges of IVF.

[07:40] She reflects on the emotional difficulties of IVF, the impact of hormones, and the strain her fertility journey has put on some of her relationships.

[11:49] She describes the deeper emotional triggers related to her infertility and how different friends' pregnancies affect her.

[13:35] The fear of judgment and the label of infertility that most women dealing with infertility experience.

[15:57] She describes her busy lifestyle, high-achieving nature, and the possibility of natural killer cells.

[24:14] The potential underlying health issues that might not be apparent even when you’re seemingly healthy.

[29:33] She talks about her childhood, childhood experiences, and how they might have contributed to her fertility blocks.

Full transcripts over on the blog:

Let's Do This Together 💚

Monica

🌺 Book Your Discovery Call Today here: https://calendly.com/findingfertility/discoveryconsultation?month=2022-10

🦩Download your FREE 3 Things that can make all the difference in helping you get & stay pregnant here: https://www.findingfertility.co/free3stepguide

Connect with Monica over on

Instagram: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityIG

TikTok: https://bit.ly/FindingFertilityTikTok

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

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

Stitcher: http://bit.ly/FindingFertilitySTITCHER

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0BMtwCvdyR4aJyfSfcKh6i

Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL3RoZWluZmVydGlsZWRpYWdub3Npcy9mZWVkLnhtbA?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj0pKGr_Jr5AhWono4IHZY8B4gQ9sEGegQIARAC

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Fertility/dp/B08K59YSHP/ref=sr_1_2?crid=2550BHUS4E039&keywords=finding+fertility+podcast&qid=1645232300&sprefix=finding+fertility+podcast%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-2

🍍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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