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A Piece of My HeartMy Second IVF Transfer, a Positive Pregnancy Test, and Managing the Waves of EmotionsThis 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 th...
2022-09-2743 minA Piece of My HeartMarisa and Christopher Discuss the Painful Experience of Losing Their Son and Feeling Mistreated by Medical Professionals Pt 2Disclaimers: 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. Th...
2022-09-2044 minA Piece of My HeartMarisa and Christopher Discuss the Painful Experience of Losing Their Son and Feeling Mistreated by Medical Professionals Pt 1Disclaimers: 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...
2022-09-1333 minA Piece of My HeartGabrielle Opens Up about Her Experience with InfertilityDisclaimers: 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...
2022-09-0641 minA Piece of My HeartNorah Shares Her Experience with Miscarriage After Two Healthy PreganciesDisclaimers: 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 to...
2022-08-3050 minA Piece of My HeartDisappointing IVF Results, the Difficulties of Missing Out, and the Importance of CommunityDisclaimers: 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 missin...
2022-08-2322 minA Piece of My HeartPoppy’s Five Year Infertility Journey and How She Finally Got Pregnant Using Donor EggsDisclaimers: 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. Im...
2022-08-1658 minA Piece of My HeartBecky’s Struggle with Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss (Part 2)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 last week’s episode. After having a miscarriage and being diagnosed with unex...
2022-08-0948 minA Piece of My HeartBecky’s Struggle with Unexplained Infertility, Miscarriage, and Pregnancy After Loss (Pt. 1)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 caus...
2022-08-0247 minA Piece of My HeartNavigating the Emotional Ups and Downs of our Infertility JourneyBeing 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 ma...
2022-07-0523 minA Piece of My HeartProcessing Our PGT Results and Contemplating Our Next StepsThe past two years of my infertility journey have been difficult. I feel the physical and mental weight of all that I have gone through every single day. Sharing my experience as it unfolds has become important to me because it has been especially hard for me to find people who are sharing while they are in the middle of the process as opposed to on the other side of it. That’s one of the main reasons I started this podcast: to share about my experience as it is unfolding rather than after the fact when everything has co...
2022-06-2815 minA Piece of My HeartHow Caroline Found Healing After a Traumatic MiscarriageDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and medical trauma. 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. Miscarriage changes you in immeasurable ways. For Caroline, her miscarriage with her third child had a lasting impact on her life. Since experiencing a traumatic D&C, she says she hasn’t felt the same ab...
2022-06-2153 minA Piece of My HeartStarting IVF: The Next Step On Our Infertility JourneyDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to infertility and medical procedures. 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. On a journey this difficult and fraught with grief and sadness, it’s hard to get excited about taking the next step but it does feel good to be trying something new. After four failed rounds of...
2022-06-1425 minA Piece of My HeartLosing Ecko: Emily Bravely Shares Her Experience with Infant Loss (Part 2)Disclaimers: Please note that today's episode is an in-depth discussion about infant loss. If that is triggering for you, please listen with care or skip this episode if needed. 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. The death of an infant is a devastation that no one should have to experience but many do. Today’s episode is part two of a two part conversation I had wit...
2022-06-071h 01A Piece of My HeartLosing Ecko: Emily Bravely Shares Her Experience with Infant Loss (Part 1)Disclaimers: Please note that today's episode is an in-depth discussion about infant loss. If that is triggering for you, please listen with care or skip this episode if needed. 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. The death of an infant is a devastation that no one should have to experience but many do. Today’s episode is part one of a two part conversation I had wit...
2022-05-3156 minA Piece of My HeartMichelle’s Story of Multiple Miscarriages, Infertility, and Pregnancy After LossDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. Infertility involves a lot of waiting–waiting for your next cycle, waiting for your results, waiting for your next scan. That waiting is punctuated by periods of grief and celebration, but more often than not it just fe...
2022-05-2444 minA Piece of My HeartRebekah and Kyle Open Up about Coping with Infertility alongside Life’s Ups and Downs (Part 2)Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. The IVF process isn’t linear. It’s a cycle of trying, having tough conversations, taking breaks, and trying again. When the going gets tough (and let’s face it, it’s always tough), it’s important to lean on your pa...
2022-05-1756 minA Piece of My HeartRebekah and Kyle Open Up about Coping with Infertility alongside Life’s Ups and Downs (Part 1)Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. This episode also includes the sounds of Rebekah and Kyle’s baby in the background. If this is difficult for you, please listen with care. Rebekah and Kyle embarked on their infertility journey in 2017, when it...
2022-05-1049 minA Piece of My HeartMy Miscarriage StoryDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. There are some types of pain you don’t want to forget, pain that comes from love and loss. In the months following my miscarriage, I couldn’t help but try to hold on to every memory–learni...
2022-05-031h 05A Piece of My HeartKatelyn’s Unexplained Infertility and Her Honest Frustrations with the IUI/IVF Process (Part 2)Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. This episode also includes details about Katelyn’s current pregnancy. If you have a hard time hearing about pregnancy, please listen with care. In today’s episode, Katelyn shares the rest of her story. She goes...
2022-04-2637 minA Piece of My HeartKatelyn’s Unexplained Infertility and Her Honest Frustrations with the IUI/IVF Process (Part 1)Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. After many rounds of testing post-miscarriage, Katelyn was diagnosed with unexplained infertility. Through the IUI/IVF process, dealing with doctors, nurses, fertility clinics, and insurance has been nothing short of frustrating. When you’re going through something so personal and so em...
2022-04-1942 minA Piece of My HeartAmber Shares Her Miscarriage Journey and How Opening Up to Others Has Helped Her HealDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. My friend Amber’s first pregnancy was easy and joyful. Then when her son was just shy of his third birthday, she found out she was pregnant again—unplanned. Having just launched her new business, she was worr...
2022-04-121h 06A Piece of My HeartEliza Opens Up About Four Years of Infertility and Pregnancy After LossDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. Anyone who has gone through infertility or miscarriage knows how vulnerable that time is, physically, emotionally, mentally, and even when it comes to your relationships and interactions with others. It is a difficult and heavy time to...
2022-04-051h 03A Piece of My HeartEmbracing the Present on Your Infertility JourneyDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. Ever since I started on this infertility journey, I’ve felt like I’m constantly yearning for the next chapter in my life: the chapter of pregnancy, of motherhood, or raising a family. But along the way, I’ve...
2022-03-2914 minA Piece of My HeartWeathering Disappointment on Your Infertility JourneyDisclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. Infertility sometimes feels like a continued wave of disappointment. One day, I’m sure my body is sending me signals that I’m pregnant. The next, it’s another negative pregnancy test. But I continue to weather the di...
2022-03-2213 minA Piece of My HeartAlone Together: One Woman’s Journey Through Infertility & IVF Part 2Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. Between the endless appointments, uncomfortable conversations, and days spent wondering “what if,” infertility is an emotional whirlwind. Along the way, there are ups and downs, tough decisions, and moments when you feel like you want to give up...
2022-03-2244 minA Piece of My HeartAlone Together: One Woman’s Journey Through Infertility & IVF Part 1Disclaimers: This episode may contain sensitive topics related to miscarriage, infertility, and 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. For many of us experiencing infertility, the journey can feel lonely. Even with a partner, even with a community, it sometimes feels like no one understands your unique story and grief. But when we open up about...
2022-03-2243 minA Piece of My HeartWelcome to A Piece of My HeartHi Friend, A Piece of My Heart is a supportive space for anyone navigating the world of infertility, miscarriage, and infant loss. Weekly episodes follow my personal journey through infertility, IUI, miscarriage, and IVF as well as open and honest conversations with brave individuals and couples facing similar experiences.
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