006: Reflections on a Self-Centered Life Before Becoming Parents
Release Date: 09/25/2019
001: Do you want to have kids?
Parents After 40
Kathryn is in her forties and Ted is in his fifties. Kathryn was a television executive producer and she's now a public speaking trainer and media coach. Ted has been in healthcare technology for 20 years. Kathryn built her own company and wanted to build a family. Ted had cancer years before they met, so they knew having a baby would be tough. But not THIS tough. Come along as they figure out how to be "Parents After 40."
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006: Reflections on a Self-Centered Life Before Becoming Parents
Parents After 40
Kathryn and Ted finally let it set in...they're about to have a baby. After three years of trying and five rounds of IVF, they never allowed themselves to think or dream about what happens AFTER delivering a healthy baby. Loss will do that to you. They reflect back at pretty self-centered lives before having a child. Because everything is about to change...
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005: 6 Things You Need to Know Before Trying IVF
Parents After 40
Episode 5 of the Parents After 40 podcast is all about what you need to know about IVF before embarking on it... from a couple who went through it FIVE times.
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004: Ted's cancer, what saved his life & how we got pregnant
Parents After 40
Ted survived cancer and is cancer free now. His frozen sperm sat in a bank for years. When Kathryn and Ted got married, they needed it. Here's his story of finding out he had cancer, the decision to have surgery, his survival -- and what it meant for his future. We couldn't leave this part of the story out, because it's too important.
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003: Waiting for the End
Parents After 40
We lost a baby at 8.5 weeks and then our mono/mono twins at 17.5 weeks.
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002: IUI - not "Eye to Eye" like the Kajagoogoo song
Parents After 40
It's IUI, not "Eye to Eye" like the Kajagoogoo song...
info_outlineEpisode 6 of the Parents After 40 podcast is all about the expected changes about after delivering a child. Kathryn and Ted finally let it set in... that they're about to have a baby. After three years of trying and five rounds of IVF, they never allowed themselves to think or dream about what happens AFTER delivering a healthy baby. Loss will do that to you.
Here are their reflections on looking back at pretty self-centered lives before having a child.
Because everything is about to change...
Kathryn Janicek was a television executive producer for 20 years and she's now a public speaking trainer and media strategist.
Ted has been in healthcare technology for 20 years.
Kathryn built her own company and wanted to build a family.
Ted had bladder cancer years before they met, and the doctors removed his prostate during his life-saving surgery. Ted and Kathryn knew having a baby would be tough -- but not this tough.
Come along as they figure out how to be "Parents After 40."
Hosts: Kathryn Janicek and Ted Wright
Produced by: Kathryn Janicek (www.kathrynjanicek.com)
Edited by: Kirie Quackenbush (www.digitalKirie.com)