Ep 19: Becky’s Struggle with Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss (Pt. 1)
Release Date: 08/02/2022
Ep 27: My Second IVF Transfer, a Positive Pregnancy Test, and Managing the Waves of Emotions
A Piece of My Heart
This episode may contain sensitive topics related to infertility. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. This might be a difficult episode for many people. Please know that I see you, I know what you’re going through, and I send all my love to you. Please stop listening if at any time it feels uncomfortable. This is the last episode of season one. I last shared a personal...
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Ep 26: Marisa and Christopher Discuss the Painful Experience of Losing Their Son and Feeling Mistreated by Medical Professionals Pt 2
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Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to infant loss. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. In today’s episode, Marisa and Christopher are back to share their experience with healing after the loss of their son Xavier. They’re also talking about how and why they decided to go down the road to adoption. The adoption process proved to be more...
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Ep 25: Marisa and Christopher Discuss the Painful Experience of Losing Their Son and Feeling Mistreated by Medical Professionals Pt 1
A Piece of My Heart
Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to infant loss. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. While Marisa and Christopher were able to conceive easily the rest of their journey to parenthood has been excruciatingly painful. From medical errors to losing their son Xavier, to struggling with adoption, the last six years have been fraught with...
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Ep 24: Gabrielle Opens Up about Her Experience with Infertility
A Piece of My Heart
Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to infertility. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. Gabrielle felt lucky to have an easy and healthy pregnancy. But after her baby was born her period never returned. And the postpartum difficulties continued with unexplained infertility. After two failed IVF transfers and a break from the process, she and her...
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Ep 23: Norah Shares Her Experience with Miscarriage After Two Healthy Pregancies
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Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. When Norah got pregnant with her third baby, she knew that something was wrong. But it wasn’t easy to get the doctors and nurses to listen to her. After two successful pregnancies, she miscarried her third baby. In today’s episode, my friend Norah is...
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Ep 22: Disappointing IVF Results, the Difficulties of Missing Out, and the Importance of Community
A Piece of My Heart
Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. Today is a really hard day. Our IVF transfer did not go as we hoped, and I’m feeling the full range of emotions that come with this process. I’m disappointed with the results, and I’m really struggling with missing out on so many of life’s beautiful...
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Ep 21: Poppy’s Five Year Infertility Journey and How She Finally Got Pregnant Using Donor Eggs
A Piece of My Heart
Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infant loss, and infertility. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. Infertility is nothing short of heartbreaking. And the decisions are endless. Test after test, IUI or IVF, adoption, or donor eggs… It really takes its toll. And when miscarriages occur, your heart breaks even further. Imagine...
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Ep 20: Becky’s Struggle with Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss (Part 2)
A Piece of My Heart
Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infant loss, and infertility. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. This is part two of my conversation with Becky. If you haven’t listened to part one, please go back and listen to . After having a miscarriage and being diagnosed with unexplained infertility, Becky and her husband decided to...
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Ep 19: Becky’s Struggle with Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss (Pt. 1)
A Piece of My Heart
Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infant loss, and infertility. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care. With infertility, you don’t always get clear answers. For Becky, her infertility journey was entirely unexpected and remains unexplained. Though she has received medical support every step of the way, there’s no clear cause to...
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Ep 18: Navigating the Emotional Ups and Downs of our Infertility Journey
A Piece of My Heart
Being on this journey of infertility is not for the faint of heart. Every day, we are faced with difficult decisions, and, even in the face of hope, it becomes increasingly difficult to remain hopeful. In today’s episode, I’m sharing why Todd and I decided to do a second retrieval round, the positive results we got from the embryo testing, and how I'm feeling going into our first transfer. If you’re going through your own infertility journey, you know how it feels to have these emotional ups and downs that don’t always make sense. We are faced with a hopeful situation, but I...
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This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infant loss, and infertility. If these subjects are triggering for you, please listen with care. While there may be conversations about medications or medical treatments, I am not a doctor, and I am not offering any medical advice. Please consult an actual doctor for your own medical care.
With infertility, you don’t always get clear answers.
For Becky, her infertility journey was entirely unexpected and remains unexplained. Though she has received medical support every step of the way, there’s no clear cause to her infertility, and that’s made it even more difficult to accept.
In today’s episode, I talk to Becky about her unexplained infertility issues and her first pregnancy, which unfortunately ended in a miscarriage. She shares her experience attending appointments alone during COVID and coming to terms with the reality of her infertility.
What’s in this episode:
- How Becky and her husband made the decision to start trying for a baby [2:16]
- When Becky realized she needed to look into her fertility [7:32]
- Her first experience working with an OBGYN to find the cause of her infertility [10:08]
- Finding out she was pregnant just before starting fertility medication [18:49]
- Hearing her baby’s heartbeat and finding a subchorionic hematoma in her uterus [27:18]
- Becky’s experience learning she’d had a miscarriage [33:48]
- Making the decision to do a D&C and the recovery process [37:32]
If you are feeling alone on your infertility journey, I invite you to tune in to this episode.
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