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Today, Ali talks to Sarah Kuhn, the badass founder of Juna, an app that provides nutrition and workouts for women in TTC, pregnancy and motherhood. Sarah's path to her three kids has not been easy, including not one but two ectopic pregnancies, having one of her tubes removed, another crushing miscarriage, "unsexy" sex, a roller coaster of emotions, the intense anxiety that comes with pregnancy after infertility, and so much more. EPISODE SPONSORS: FERTILITY RALLY www.fertilityrally.com and @fertilityrally, offers 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome.TICKETS FOR FERTILITY RALLY LIVE ARE ON SALE NOW!GO TO FERTILITYRALLY.COM to snag yours!BELI for WOMENBeli is formulated with the right nutrients to help boost your fertility, increase egg quality and support IVF to increase your chances of conception and a healthy pregnancy.To get started with Beli, go to belibaby.com and use co

Lindsay Fischer is the best-selling author of "The House on Sunset" and "The Two Week Wait Challenge," and today, she's telling Ali her entire infertility story. Included: How trauma therapy helped her heal from an abusive relationship, the importance of self-care, and what happened when her husband did an at-home semen analysis. Lindsay also talks about IUIs, her horrible experience with Clomid, a retrieval that went horribly wrong, and the anxiety she felt—and the constant dehydration she suffered—when she finally did become pregnant with her twins.EPISODE SPONSORS:FERTILITY RALLY www.fertilityrally.com ( http://www.fertilityrally.com/ ) and @fertilityrally, offers24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome.TICKETS FOR FERTILITY RALLY LIVE ARE ON SALE NOW!GO TO FERTILITYRALLY.COM ( https://fertilityrally.com/ ) to snag yours!EXTEND FERTILITYExtend Fertility began offering

Today, Ali is talking to Roohi Jeelani, MD, FACOG at Vios Fertility Institute. Roohi is a superwoman: An icon in the infertility community, a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist, an outspoken advocate, a mother, a wife, and an industry disrupter. Roohi uses her ginormous social media following—almost 100,000 followers—to empower her patients and the #ttccommunity at large. She talks to Ali about the moment she knew she wanted to become a fertility doctor, being diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 12, her own infertility journey—including IUIs and IVF, and the power of social media. Roohi is currently going through treatment to try to have her third child, and she explains how "sometimes doctors make the worst patients" — and how she gets through the dreaded two week wait. EPISODE SPONSORS: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is w

A few years ago, Rachel went to the hospital with a terrible stomach bug, though she was going into surgery for a laparoscopy, and possible appendicitis, and woke up with a diagnosis of Stage Three Ovarian Cancer and a full hysterectomy. Today, she tells Ali all about her life-changing experience, including how the hysterectomy thrust her into menopause and rendered her infertile. "Infertility crept up on me. No one talked to me about it," she says. "I felt overlooked by everyone because I was young. They didn't give me access to any resources." Now 26, Rachel explains what options she has when she does begin trying to conceive, how she still struggles to find community, and why she calls her infertility her "dirty little secret."EPISODE SPONSORS:FERTILITY RALLY www.fertilityrally.com and @fertilityrally, offers 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome.TICKETS FOR

Kimberly and Mark, aka @bombprooffamily have been through a lot since they first got together via Match.com. Today, Ali welcomes her first couple on the show to talk about all of it, including multiple pregnancy losses, going into "full denial" when they didn't hear a heartbeat, infertility, secondary infertility and unexplained infertility, how they coped, and more. They also talk about being angry and sad, and how Mark wrote the children's book, "Whirlwinds to Rainbows" as a tribute to his bombproof wife--and strong women everywhere. EPISODE SPONSORS:FERTILITY RALLY www.fertilityrally.com and @fertilityrally, offers 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome.SAVE THE DATE FOR FERTILITY RALLY LIVE ON 4/17/21EXTEND FERTILITYExtend Fertility began offering egg freezing at 40% below the national average cost. By 2017, they were the largest egg freezing practice in the nat

Abbe Feder is an actress, an infertility advocate, creator of the podcast "Maculate Conception," and co-founder of InCircle Fertility (@incirclefertility), which provides coaching, education, support and guidance to anyone navigating the shitshow of infertility. Today, Ali is talking to her amazing friend about her years-long journey, including multiple IUIs, multiple unsuccessful transfers, two pregnancy losses, a surrogate who changed her mind, PTSD, switching doctors, heartbreak after heartbreak, and so much more. Abbe also recalls the very difficult decision she and her husband made to reduce her pregnancy when she was pregnant with triplets, and how that third baby became her "angel baby," who brought them their healthy twins. EPISODE SPONSORS:FERTILITY RALLY @fertilityrally offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome. SAVE THE DATE FOR FERTILITY RALLY LIVE ON 4/17

Meet Lauren, an #infertilitywarrior who has gone through a ton so far throughout her fertility journey, including a near-fatal pulmonary embolism from being on birth control when she was 19; discovering her husband's male factor infertility, four IUIs and medicated cycles, and lots of "glimmers of hope and heartbreak." After IVF and some devastating failed embryo transfers, depression and a diagnosis of endometriosis, Lauren and her husband decided to pursue adoption, which is where they find themselves now—feeling hopeful for the future, but still guarding their hearts. Follow them on IG @thehopefulkampffersEPISODE SPONSORS: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome!VIOS Fertility Institute, @viosfertility. Vios is a different fertility clinic experience built on a foundation of patient-centered care, evidence-based medicine, and innovat

Today, Ali is talking to Alexie, who had her daughter through IUI before tragedy struck at home: When her daughter was 16 months old, Alexie's husband died unexpectedly. Alexie talks about navigating grief as a young widow and co-founding a self-care gift shop, Crying Out Loud, after connecting with other women who had also lost their partners at a young age. Alexie also talks about getting back into the dating scene in her mid-30s, finding new love, and how today, she and her partner are going through IVF, using both her partner's sperm and donor sperm, still unsure what the outcome will be. EPISODE SPONSOR: BELI for WOMENBeli is formulated with the right nutrients to help boost your fertility, increase egg quality and support IVF to increase your chances of conception and a healthy pregnancy. To get started with Beli, go to belibaby.com and use code ALI15 for 15% off your first month of either Beli Women or Beli Men. Again, that's code ALI15 at belibaby.com. EPISODE SPONSOR: Fertility RallyFerti

It’s the 100th Episode! Today Ali interviews her husband, Vince, about his version of their infertility story. Over some Coors and White Claws, they start with how the met and fell in love in high school, what happened when they moved to New York in 2003, and how their lives changed when they decided to have kids. They also discuss how, after Ever was born with no problem in 2009, their world was rocked when they found themselves going through unexpected secondary infertility, two failed IUIs and four miscarriages. Their marriage, they admit, almost didn’t last. They wrap it up with questions from the IG community. SPONSORS:CIRCLE SURROGACY:Learn more at circlesurrogacy.com, and follow them on social media @circlesurrogacyPROOV:Go to proovtest.com, enter the code INFERTILEAF20, and you’ll get 20% off your first order. PACIFIC FERTILITY CENTER:For more information and to get started today, check out their IG at @pacificfertilitycenter, email them at info@pacificfertility.com, or call (415) 834-3000 Support thi

Suzie Welsh Devine is a Fertility and IVF Nurse, and the founder and CEO of Binto, and she has dedicated her career to reinventing the way women take care of their health. "It's very odd to be in the patient seat now," she says, explaining how she's gone from IVF nurse to IVF patient. Suzie talks about being in the midst of her infertility journey, including uterine polyps, endometriosis, loving your body but also hating it, her miscarriage last summer at seven weeks, her most recent transfer, and where she and her husband are now. EPISODE SPONSORS:Binto, @mybintoBinto offers personalized supplements for your body and no one else’s. Binto is the women’s health company on a mission to help women everywhere get access to safe and effective over-the-counter products, alongside access to licensed healthcare professionals, all at an attainable price-point. Go to mybinto.com today and use code infertileAF at checkout to get 20% off your first month.  Fertility Rally, @fertilityrallyOffering 24/7 Com

Today, Ali talks to Aimee, the founder of @iwassupposedtohaveababy about Infertility in the Jewish community. Inspired by the questions, "Why in the Jewish community is this so closeted?" and "Why is no one talking about this?" Aimee, a member of the Orthodox Jewish Community, started her organization in 2019 to help others in her community feel less alone. Aimee explains how in the Modern Orthodox Community, she tries "to straddle the modern world while still upholding the ideals and basic tenets of the religion," and also talks about her unexplained secondary infertility, how she lost 4 pregnancies at 16 or 17 weeks, and how, finally pregnant with her final two babies—twins—she suffered from panic attacks and PTSD. "Hearing, 'There's no heartbeat,' just changes you," she says. EPISODE SPONSOR: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating you

Today's episode features a conversation with Jamie, an Atlanta-based realtor who is in a same sex marriage with Kathy, who is 30 years her senior. Jamie explains to Ali how she and Kathy met and fell in love when Jamie was in her early 20s, what happened when they started to try to have children, and where they are now. Jamie's story includes her diagnosis of PCOS, 10 IUIs with 2 or 3 different sperm donors, pursuing fostering and adoption, an ectopic pregnancy, a miscarriage around 7 weeks, and finally, a healthy baby girl, born in December 2020. EPISODE SPONSOR: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertile-af/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today, Ali is talking to L'Oreal, a Chicagoan with a journalism background who has written about her infertility in such publications as Self and Hello Giggles. L'Oreal talks about "being in the messy middle right now" —and how, even though she doesn't know how her story is going to turn out, she wants to share anyway. She discusses how isolating infertility can be, especially in the black community, how having a "plan" rarely works out, her history of fibroids, how infertility has affected her marriage, and how IVF is a full-time job. L'Oreal also explains the shame that black women feel and their hesitation to speak about infertility, how the face of infertility is usually a "thin white woman," and how medical treatment is different, depending on what you look like. EPISODE SPONSOR: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVER

On today's episode, Ali is talking to her hilarious friend Millie Brooks, an actress, an infertility warrior and advocate, and an all around stellar human. Millie talks about meeting her husband, what happened when they started to try to have kids, how an "unexplained infertility" diagnosis rocked their world, and how switching doctors and finding Dr. Aimeee, "The Egg Whisperer" changed the course of their treatment and their lives. Currently pregnant with their first child through IVF, Millie talks about the anxiety that comes along with pregnancy after infertility, how many more embryos they have on ice, and how the infertility community has helped her get through some of her lowest times. EPISODE SPONSOR: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support now at fertilityrally.com/join-nowSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertile-af/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https:

Today, Ali is talking to Ellen about addiction and infertility. Currently sober for almost four year, Ellen talks about how not being able to "drink like a normal person" became a problem, especially once she started navigating the rocky waters of infertility. Ellen talks about taking Clomid, the awkwardness of timed IUIs, getting black out drunk every night and how her husband hired a divorce lawyer, ready to end their relationship. She also talks about going to rehab, how the baby onesie she brought with her helped her get through her in-patient stay, and how, later, and thanks to IVF, she finally became pregnant with twins. EPISODE SPONSOR:FERTILITY RALLY, www.fertilityrally.com, providing 24/7 community, content and curated events for everyone going through infertility. Follow @fertilityrally for moreSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertile-af/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Today, Ali talks to Ruth Corden, "Finding the Funny" podcast host, infertility advocate and IVF warrior who is now living Childless Not By Choice. Ruth talks about her 8 year infertility journey, including miscarriage, loneliness, mental health, her siblings, (including her sister Ange, who she hosts the podcast with, and brother, Late Late Show James), and how she loves being an aunt to their children. Ruth also talks about feeling like a failure, what happened when she found out her husband had secretly been using drugs while they were going through it all and how infertility seeps into every single area of your life."Let's be honest, when I die, there isn't gonna be anybody at my funeral talking about how many kids I pushed out of my vagina," Ruth says. "They're gonna be talking about what kind of person I am and the way I treated people and how kind I was and what I did for my neighbor. Nobody's gonna stand around going, 'Oh god, well, she didn't have any kids,

Today's guest is Amanda Warsavsky, whose infertility story includes her mother's infertility diagnosis (and a sister born through IVF), being blown off by a doctor at the age of 25 even though she knew there was something wrong, discovering she has PCOS, and the 7 failed IUIs she had before having her baby daughter. Amanda also talks about the devastating decision she made to terminate her pregnancy at 19 weeks because her baby son had a myriad of health issues. And now, how at almost 32 weeks pregnant, she is still not able to fully relax. Amanda is also talking about her new site, we-know.com, a place where people can go to ask questions and crowdsource advice on everything from travel to food to infertility. Sponsor: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support now at fertilityrally.com/join-nowFor more on We-Know, check out beta.we-know.com/users/339Support this podcast at — https://redcircl

Today, Ali is talking to Ariel Taylor, aka @carried.with.love, about her 4th surrogacy journey, the surrogacy journeys that came before—and why she wanted to become a surrogate in the first place. Ariel talks about becoming a young mother, how she explains to her biological daughter that she’s carrying someone else’s baby, the tragic loss of one of her intended parents’ babies, and how surrogacy is different in Canada from the United States. She also talks about infertility as trauma, surrogacy advocacy and education, and common myths surrounding surrogates. Sponsor: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support now at fertilityrally.com/join-nowSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertile-af/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On today's episode, Ali talks to Marilyn B. Gomez about her six-year-long journey to motherhood, which lasted from 2009 to 2015. Marilyn, who hosts the Mama Vida Podcast @mamavidapodcast and makes cool infertility tees, hats, jewelry and more at @infertiletees, discusses her high points and low points, including how much holidays suck while #ttc; the guilt she felt about whether genetic testing means "playing god;" how therapy and visualization exercises helped her cope; how grieving differently from her husband drove them apart; and how, after she finally got pregnant with her daughter, Mila, she experienced the deep anxiety of pregnancy after infertility. Ali and Marilyn also talk about the difficult decision some people have to make when they've got more embryos on ice. SPONSORS: Today’s episode is sponsored by FERTILITY RALLY—Community, Content and Curated Events for anyone experiencing the pain of infertility or building their modern families at www.fertilityrally.com Support this podcast

Last week, Lena Dunham released an article in Harper's called, "False Labor: Giving Up on Motherhood" -- and it created a shitstorm in the infertility community, to say the least. Today, Ali and her friends Abbe and Sophie, infertility warrior-advocates and co-founders of InCircle Fertility, unpack the article that has the whole community talking. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertile-af/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy