152. IVF, Infertility, and the Emotional and Financial Cost of Women's Health Care with Ali Prato

Financial Feminist

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Self-improvement, Education, How To, Business

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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TW: infertility, pregnancy, loss If you’re joining us today — it's National Infertility Awareness Week. For one in five people, building a family can be a challenging journey. In this episode of Financial Feminist, Tori tackles the deeply personal yet widely experienced topic of infertility, alongside Ali Prato, host of the top-ranked podcast "Infertile AF," co-founder of Fertility Rally and author of the children's book "Work of ART." Ali bravely shares her own experience with secondary infertility, IUIs, IVF, and the emotional, physical, and financial burdens it brought. Together they discuss not only the science and stats, but also the real impact infertility has on relationships, mental health, and (of course) wallets. Join us as Ali sheds light on a topic that deserves open discussion. Read transcripts, learn more about our guests and sponsors, and get more resources at: https://herfirst100k.com/financial-feminist-show-notes/152-the-cost-of-infertility-with-ali-prato-infertile-af/ Not sure where to start on your financial journey? Take our FREE money personality quiz! https://herfirst100k.com/quiz. Check out Ali’s podcast: Infertile AF podcast Get support & join the community: Fertility Rally Get Ali’s book: Work of Art Visit Ali’s website: http://Infertileafgroup.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A trigger warning right off the top for this episode.
0:02.0	We are discussing infertility, pregnancy, and loss.
0:04.6	So if any of those will be a little difficult to hear,
0:07.9	take a pass on this one, we'll see you next week.
0:10.8	But I did all the things and at your taught all through growing up if you work really
0:15.1	hard at something and you apply yourself and you do the best that you can do you will
0:19.9	achieve success at some point and you know like we said before this isn't one of those
0:25.1	places where that's always the case. You know even if you have the best medical team
0:31.0	and the best doctors there's so many variables that can factor into getting
0:37.4	pregnant and having a healthy pregnancy and having a healthy baby.
0:42.3	Hi Financial Feminist welcome back baby.
0:45.0	Hi Financial Feminist, welcome back to the show. I'm so excited to see you.
0:47.0	If you're an oldie-bitty goodie, welcome back.
0:48.0	And if you're new here, hi, my name is Tori.
0:50.0	I am a money expert.
0:51.0	I'm a New York Times with selling author. I'm the host of this show which is the number one money podcast for women in the world and we are a community of nearly 5 million financial feminists. The millions keep growing and I'm so humbled and thankful for you all.
1:03.5	Today's episode is a really, really great one, and it's one of the most common topic requests we get,
1:10.1	which is about IVF, infertility, about the cost of those treatments, both emotional and financial.
1:17.0	And so this was just a really, really great episode, very informative and also for someone who is child free.
1:23.7	There are a lot of things that I didn't know that I learned.
1:26.1	So if you are someone who is trying to have a child,
1:29.4	if is trying to pursue that, if you're like me and in your late 20s early 30s and you
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