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The Emotional Rollercoaster of Infertility and IVF | Katie McMann on the Dr. J Show episode 276

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Release Date: 04/02/2025

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“Infertility is hard, it is a cross, it is suffering, but we can help each other by recognizing that and choosing things that will lift up humanity instead of introduce so many harms.”

IVF is often sold as a treatment for infertility, and couples who struggle with infertility flock to it. On the surface, it appears to more than adequately deal with the problem, but if you scratch the surface, there are a host of issues that plague the couples, children, and industry. And the funny thing is, IVF doesn’t actually cure infertility. Whatever biological issues caused the infertility will still exist after IVF treatment. Katie McMann discusses her own journey with IVF, the Catholic perspective on IVF, healing from the negative effects of IVF, and setting up a ministry to help people struggling with having used IVF.

Many women experience infertility or impaired fertility at some point in their lives. Some, such as Katie McMann, turn to in vitro fertilzation. Through IVF, she and her husband bore two children, but ten others were lost in the process.

Listen as Katie explains how, as well as reveals her painful realization of the problems with IVF, and how she came to co-found Shiloh IVF Ministry.

“At every stage of IVF, there’s risk to the embryos,” Katie notes, also sharing that some of her embryos didn’t survive the thawing process.

“I tried to say, ‘Oh, they’re just droplets of water. There’s no way they’re life.’ I really tried to tell myself that they weren’t children.”

Through Shiloh IVF Ministry, Katie helps couples deal with the hardship of infertility, discern what to do with frozen embryonic children, and more.

Shiloh IVF Ministry: https://www.shilohivf.com/

Home | The Fruitful Hollow: thefruitfulhollow.com
The Fruitful Hollow is a Catholic resource and community for those who struggle with infertility.

Springs in the Desert | Catholic Infertility Ministry: https://springsinthedesert.org/


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