This is the Shameless Mom Academy episode 55.

Welcome to the Shameless Mom Academy. I'm your host, Sarah Dean, and I'm here to give you and

other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between motherhood

and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more

shameless every day because if you aren't building a life, you're extraordinarily proud of,

what kind of legacy are you building? So let's dive in. Hello, shameless moms. I'm always

happy to be here and happy to be here today, but I will admit I'm really nervous to record this

episode. I've actually been sitting in front of my computer for a while now, making my notes for

the show and trying to figure out how I'm going to get through it because I'm going to be sharing

the rest of our IVF story, which didn't end the way I expected it to. So I'm looking forward to

sharing it because I think that sharing stories is a crucial part of

us connecting with other people and us impacting other people's lives. But this will be a

difficult story to share. So let's just dive in. We got back our test results. So as part of our IVF

experience, we decided to do genetic testing because of my age.

So to get you up to speed, if you haven't gotten the most recent updates leading up to this

episode, after our IVF egg retrieval, we had six embryos. So that means six of the seven

eggs they retrieved from me were fertilized. And of those

six, one of them made it two day five, which means that and became a blastocyst, which means

that it was actually a viable embryo that they could then either transfer into me in hopes

of achieving pregnancy, or they could take a couple cells off of there

and biopsy them and then freeze the embryo. And the benefit of doing that with my age is that

you can test for chromosomal abnormalities. And so because we've had such a hard time getting

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