Ep. 5: A Dozen Eggs

10/30/22 • 37 min

IVF starts with a difficult procedure called the egg retrieval. Jen is relieved when the doctor gets 12 eggs. But Jen and Neil discover the odds become a numbers game, and nothing is guaranteed. While waiting for transfer day, Jen and her mom talk about an upsetting incident from their past that they’ve never discussed before.

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BONUS: Love With Nowhere To Go

More from Jen’s chat with Kelsey Puddister and Julia Collins. They further explain what it’s like to deal with infertility as a queer couple, how grief after losing loved ones mirrors the pain they feel with the difficulty for Kelsey to get pregnant, and how they use dark humour to get through the darkest of days.

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BONUS: Yoga to Support Fertility

In the last episode, Jen talked about all of the things she’s doing in hopes of improving her baby odds, including yoga. In this extended interview, instructor Nicole Blackwood shares her own struggles to get pregnant, and how she developed a class to help others cope.