IVF Pregnancy After Loss & Other Mama Experiences with Yetunde

07/15/20 • 51 min

Responding to Life: Talking Health, Fertility and Parenthood

In this Fertility episode, I am joined by my friend, Yetunde. Yetunde is an intuitive, passionate educational leader, skilled equity facilitator, proud girl-mom, joy seeker, and truth-teller. Yetunde was born and raised in Guyana and earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Psychology and Counseling here in the US. Her role as a daughter, sister, and mother to two incredible young women drives her to focus on the elevation of the underserved, and the protection of women and girls. She is the founder of Arising Consulting and co-founder of Shero's Rise, a non-profit organization serving underserved girls.

In this episode, I share my experience with IVF pregnancy after adopting our first son and having multiple miscarriages and a 17 week loss of twins prior to the adoption. Yetunde and I share our different pregnancy experiences as well as some thoughts about the challenges of being mothers and raising our children in this day and age.

For more info on Yetunde and her work, please go to Instagram to follow @sherosrise and @ydrubin and you can email her at [email protected]

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For more info on Yetunde and her work, please go to Instagram to follow @sherosrise and @ydrubin and you can email her at [email protected]

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Pivoting Our Fertility Journey & Adopting

In this Fertility episode, I continue with the story of how I overcame numerous obstacles to eventually create my family of 5 children. With many failed IVF cycles and the loss of our twins at 17 weeks still looming over us, my husband and I felt it was time to pivot our family plan and pursue international adoption in Kazakhstan. In this episode featuring special guest, Kimchi, we share our different experiences with adoption.

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Izzy got into fitness as an outlet for her mental health and the desire to get stronger and work through her own battle with body dysmorphia. As her journey evolved, she realized the close tie to the work she was doing in fitness and the bigger picture work she wanted to focus on – helping women feel more confident, empowered, and comfortable having real, raw conversations around our everyday struggles and mental health. That is when the BodyLoveSoul Method was born. Izzy also runs a passion project called Wildflower Project which is an initiative to help women come together to talk about mental health and our everyday struggles.

For more information about Izzy, her fitness training, and her work with the Wildflower Project, please visit www.izzyatkinson.com and on Instagram @izzy.atkinson and @wildflower.project