When I was asked to be interviewed by Valerie at Eggsperiences, I was confused. After all, the title of her blog is “All Things Egg Freezing.”
I didn’t freeze my eggs.
I didn’t contemplate freezing my eggs.
I didn’t even know that much about egg freezing when I would have ideally frozen my eggs.
I agreed to the interview, but was nervous after doing so. I’ve been here before. Telling my secondary infertility story to people who felt they could not relate because I already had a child, and desired a second.
When I questioned why Valerie’s listeners might be interested in my story, she simply said that she wanted to expose her listeners to all types of stories. Not just egg freezing.
And when I enlightened her to what’s referred to as the Pain Olympics, she was flabbergasted.
“All pain is valid,” she said. “That just doesn’t seem right.”
And I agreed.
She even spoke of this in a recent blog post.
Tomorrow my story will be featured on Eggsperiences on the “Stories,” page. I will post the link when it goes live.
IVFML was different than any others I had listened to. For starters, there were two hosts – a husband and a wife (typically podcasts are hosted by women only). The hosts, Simon Ganz and Anna Almendrala, have a great sense of humor, mixed with the ability to be raw and vulnerable. They touched on so many common emotional, physical, and financial aspects of infertility. They had guest speakers who were friends experiencing infertility, a medical doctor, and a therapist. I found myself hanging on every word, and looking forward to finishing the series to see how it ended.
The Walk of Hope recognizes the many ways in which families are built, supports local support services and programs for the 7.3 million women and men living with infertility, and raises public understanding of how the disease of infertility impacts families nationwide.
It can be difficult for those who haven’t been through Assisted Reproductive Techniques (ART) to comprehend all that’s involved. It can also be extremely challenging for those who have been through ART using their own genetics and womb, to understand what it would be like to make the decision to use someone else’s.
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