What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
Creating a family is a life transforming event that’s a lot harder than the culturally-generated marketing suggests.
Relying on the glossy media depictions of this transition leaves many women feeling like they are broken or failing when their actual experience doesn’t match their expectation.
I tripped over every step of this process: getting pregnant, being pregnant and giving birth on my way to having two kids.
This podcast showcases the really, really of people’s experiences:
* what they didn’t expect when they were expecting
* what they wish they’d known.
You’ll hear shareable insights gleaned from time in the IVF gauntlet, ways to manage the flattening nausea and fatigue of pregnancy, 40 hour labors and much more including expert medical insights to remake our expectations, making them more real, more human and more useful.
What You Didn't Expect in Fertility, Pregnancy & Birth: Real Stories & Expert Insights
What Happens when Infertility Gives Way to Pregnancy Before IVF is started: Kristen's Story, Part I
Today we hear from a woman whose experience ran the gamut from infertility, on the brink of IVF, to smooth pregnancies, quick births, and difficult miscarriages.
Throughout this process she learns:
* important lessons about the limits of her control over the complicated process of growing another human
* the joys of outrunning medical predictions that pregnancy would be very hard to achieve.
What follows is the first part of our conversation.
Link about inductions
https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-on-inducing-labor-for-going-past-your-due-date/