203: Elle Wright's IVF journey

The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn

Kids & Family, Self-improvement, Parenting, Education

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Our guest for this episode is the wonderful Elle Wright! She tells us all about her brilliant new book, A Bump in the Road: A Story of Fertility, Hope and Trying Again.

We talk about Elle's experience of IVF after baby loss. She tells us about dealing with well-meaning but painful comments, and how the online community of women living with infertility helped her through.

Plus, of course, we cover some serious subjects, like being obsessed with your baby's ear wax, and whether it's OK to feed animals with your mouth. Elle's ace book is out now. You can find her on Instagram @feathering_the_empty_nest.

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0:00.0	Today's episode is sponsored by EE. Now we have managed to record this episode amongst just the
0:05.0	sheer chaos of two alive, juggling teens, homework, washing piles and just mess. They just mess
0:11.0	all the time. How my kids know how to tie their own shoes or the days of the week is beyond me,
0:15.9	but help is at hand. I am very pleased to tell you that EE have introduced EE Learn.
0:21.9	It's a collection of tools, services and information to help families like mine learn wonderful
0:26.8	things and it's open to everyone everywhere. Their new digital platform EE Learn Smart gives kids
0:32.5	access to inspiring mentors from fabulous places like BAFTA and the FA. The lessons can help kids
0:38.3	pick up new skills that will help them get on and this could be something from backyard chemistry
0:43.4	to future ready financial advice. Do you know what? I just wish I had something like this when I was
0:47.5	growing up. Actually, I think I'm still growing up, so I better go to EE Learn right now. And if you
0:53.5	want to find out more, just search EE Learn. Before we start actually, I do have a complaint to make
1:00.5	because this is the second time I have chatted to you too and no one has sent me a cat suit.
1:10.9	I still don't have one. I still don't have one. I'm expecting it any day in the post. Every time
1:17.5	you ask no one, I think, yep, that'll be the post when cat suit will be here today and
1:21.3	I'm just showing off my bullet journal. Last time Helen said she was going to send me one with
1:26.7	Boris's face on the front. I wasn't myself, El because I was vegan. Hello scumbags, this is the
1:37.4	Scummy Mummy's podcast. With your hosts, Ellie Gibson and Helen Thor.
1:44.0	Hello and welcome to the Scummy Mummy's podcast. It's me, Helen Thorne. And it's me, Ellie Gibson.
1:53.7	And today, Ellie, we are delighted to have a returning guest. It's one of our favourite women on
1:59.2	the entire planet. It's El right, hello. Hello, both. Thank you for having me again. Oh, it's lovely.
2:06.8	It's lovely. It's like, when were you last on it? It must be a few years now. It was, yeah, it was
2:12.0	it was over to beginning of 2019, I want to say. And Helen was vegan that much.
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