Hey everyone, welcome to part two of the Big Fat Positive bonus episode where we answer listener

questions that you guys send in to us for our check in the inbox segment.

We have a few more questions to answer and we are really excited to get to them.

So let's get started.

All right, let's keep going.

So we have a question from Cass. Cass says, I've been trying to conceive for a year and a half and there's been a few small hiccups in my blood work and my OB has suggested IVF as the next possible step. I've heard someone mention IVF in the podcast and my husband and I are close to beginning that journey ourselves. I know it's all individualized, but can you share a little

bit about what the journey was like for you? Were both children conceived through IVF?

Shana? I guess that question is for moi. Yeah, well, first off, I talk a lot about this in episode

21. I kind of share in depth about the journey. So definitely

check out that episode if you want to hear a lot about it. The title is when getting pregnant is

hard AF, if I recall. Yes. Yes. Because getting pregnant for me was hard AF. And for me,

it started with a couple years of infertility, and then I had a miscarriage, and

then I was just like, I need to go see a fertility doctor. And luckily, my first try with Clomid,

which is as a fertility drug, helped me get pregnant with L. And then a couple years went by,

I had another miscarriage. And by that time,

you know, with my history of infertility and my history of miscarriages and my age, I just was like,

I don't want to mess around with this anymore. And I decided that I wanted to look into IVF.

So I went to the doctor and that's what he suggested

for me too. And I was just so gung-ho about it. Like once I made my mind up, I was just like,

we're doing this. Despite how intimidating it sounded and what a long journey it sounded like

and all the needles and everything that was like ahead of me,

I just decided to take it day by day and just always have the attitude of, well, I'm just going to try. I'm just going to go to the doctor and get a consultation. We'll see. I'm just going to start taking these drugs. We'll see if I produce any eggs. I don't know. So I think kind of having an attitude of like, I'm just going to go for

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