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Baby Steps: Overcoming Major Fertility Obstacles Ft. Erin Andrews

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Betches

Relationships, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education

4.91.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jordana is back for Baby Steps, presented by BetterHelp, and is joined by sportscaster and TV personality Erin Andrews to talk all about having a baby via surrogate following her 9-year-long fertility journey. Erin opens up about how she was able to overcome a cervical cancer diagnosis, and managed to have her first child at the age of 45. They talk about the egg-extraction process, when it’s time to consider IVF and freezing embryos, and how she finally decided to start searching for a surrogate. Finally, they offer tips for people looking to go down a similar path to parenthood, and what it really takes to overcome major obstacles along the way. Thanks again to our presenting sponsor, BetterHelp! Visit BetterHelp.com/BABYSTEPS today to get 10% off your first month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Baby Steps presented by Better Help. I'm your host

0:07.0

Rudina Abraham and on Baby Steps we're exploring the various paths to

0:10.5

Parenthood that lay ahead when starting a family doesn't come easy.

0:14.0

With the help of weekly guests, I'm taking you on my own fertility journey and asking the questions

0:18.1

that need to be asked.

0:19.9

Trying to have a baby, especially when you experience obstacles, can be a huge emotional and

0:23.7

mental challenge.

0:25.2

And that's why I invited Better Help to join us as the presenting sponsor of Baby Steps.

0:29.7

If you're thinking of starting therapy, I recommend giving Better help a try it's entirely online

0:34.0

convenient and suited to your schedule just go to better help dot com slash baby steps

0:38.6

today to get 10% off your first month that'sE-L-P.com slash baby steps. Therapy can give you the tools to

0:46.0

navigate the difficult transitions in life and the path to parenthood is definitely one of them.

0:50.8

My guest today is Erin Andrews, sportsaster and TV personality. You might know her from

0:55.2

dancing with the stars. To talk about having a baby via surrogate following her nine-year-long

0:59.8

fertility journey. But before we get to Erin, always here's my sister Dr.

1:04.0

Naomi Bernstein. Welcome Naomi.

1:06.0

Thank you so much for having me.

1:08.1

I'm excited to hear about this guest.

1:10.3

Yeah, I had such a great conversation with Aaron Andrews and one thing that we talked about that I thought was interesting was she talked about, you know, she is like such a high achiever, she's so successful in her field and she also works with really successful people.

1:27.0

She works with like football stars, hockey stars and like you know people who are just super accomplished.

1:33.8

She was talking about how once she started talking about her issues with

1:36.9

fertility, she heard a lot of men that she was working with kind of reveal

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