Baby Steps: Why You Shouldn’t Think Of Egg Freezing As Insurance || Season 3 Ep. 4

Oversharing

Betches

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

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jordana welcomes back her own reproductive endocrinologist and author of The Lucky Egg, Dr. Lucky Sekhon. In this episode, Dr. Sekhon reveals the #1 comment-section myth she hates seeing, debunks misconceptions about fertility as a meritocracy, and explains why placenta health isn’t just the woman’s responsibility. From fertility basics to important facts about ovulation and how age factors into it all, Dr. Sekhon shares insight into the often mystified process of pregnancy. https://theluckyegg.com/ Pre-order The Lucky Egg Here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A quick note before we get into the episode, Oversharing is a podcast for entertainment purposes
0:08.0	only.
0:08.4	It is not a medical podcast and does not constitute medical or psychological advice.
0:12.8	Always seek the advice of your physician or mental health professionals.
0:15.4	Hello and welcome back to Baby Steps.
0:18.0	I'm Trigana Abraham and today we have a very special guest. My reproductive
0:23.0	endocrinologist, my fertility doctor, is in studio with us today. And she's going to answer
0:27.7	a ton of your questions and my questions. And we're going to get into it. So please welcome Dr.
0:33.2	Lucky Sikon. Thank you for having me. Of course. I know you. My second time. Yes. Thank you for coming back. You were on season one. So it's so great to have you back to get into more things. But since that time, you've actually written a book. Yes. Yes. It's called The Lucky Egg, Understanding Your Portility and How to Get Pregnant Now. I love that title. Great. And I love the,
0:54.7	you can see it here. It's displayed. Comes out when? Comes out January 13th next year.
1:00.3	So, okay. Yeah, you can pre-order it now. It's available. But it's the book that everyone needs.
1:06.5	I like to refer to it as the fertility Bible. Because I think everyone should know how their body works.
1:12.3	So even if you're not actively trying, but you're not sure even where to begin, how to track your cycle, it walks you through it in a very easy to understand simple way.
1:20.7	But it's all backed by data and science.
1:23.4	And it's all up to date information.
1:25.5	So you don't have to wade through Google searches late night,
1:28.8	you know, all the confusion that you might encounter on Reddit forums.
1:32.1	You're getting it straight from the source.
1:33.6	And I felt like this actually wasn't something I wanted to do.
1:38.1	I wrestled with this because I knew the commitment and undertaking.
1:41.4	It would be on top of having a full-time clinical job, treating patients. But I was consistently frustrated with the lack of good information out there.
1:50.2	And all my patients were asking me about certain books. And I would say, no, I don't really
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