Hi friends. Welcome back to Just the Good Stuff, the podcast that is the new kid around the block around here.

I hope that I didn't completely scare you or bore you in the last couple episodes.

And I'm grateful to even have you here today. Thank you so much for joining us.

And today's episode

is definitely going to be a little bit more deep and a little sad, a little emotional,

a little bit of this, a little bit of that because we are talking about infertility and the

journey to starting a family, something that Jordan and myself struggled with for a couple of years and something that my very

close friend Abby Cannon also went through with her husband Rob. And there are no words to truly

describe the journey to trying to start a family and the trials and tribulations that come

with that. It is something that really takes a toll on you physically,

emotionally. We get to this in the episode, but as a, as a woman, it just made me feel like I,

like I wasn't a female. It made me feel like I wasn't a female, like I wasn't doing what I thought

my body should be doing. And I don't mean to sound like an anti-feminist or, please don't like hold this against me.

But I did not feel good about my body because it wasn't doing what I thought it was supposed

to be doing to start my beautiful family with my husband.

And this whole journey really took a toll and took a toll on us.

And it wasn't easy to have our beautiful

amazing crazy at times but the cutest baby in the world is Ezra Benjamin Carpenter and he is

the light of my life he turns me to mush they have a whole video that shares the story and

you see me doing injections and I talk more about it. But when

Jordan and I were going through this, all I did was read different blogs and listen to podcasts

and call friends who I knew had a friend or a family member or anything that went through

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