Breaking the Silence Around Infertility with Faten Odeh

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Relationships, Depression, Society & Culture, Women, Health & Fitness, Self Care, Islam, Mental Illness, Politics, Sisterhood. Life Coach, Faith, Anxiety, Divorce, Mental Health, Relationship Advice, Religion & Spirituality, Marriage, Muslim Women, Muslim, Taboo

4.9 • 685 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 8, our guest Faten Odeh shares her story about her struggles with infertility. We learn about the IVF process and the effects it has had on her physical and mental health. Faten discusses the hardships she has dealt with in regards to conceiving and how she has found the silver lining throughout it all. We hope this episode leaves our listeners with more knowledge about infertility and how to better approach this topic with family and friends. Watch our IGTV sit down with Dr. Abeer...

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode eight of unsweetened and unfiltered.
0:10.3	It's the third day of Ramadan.
0:12.1	Donya, how are you feeling?
0:13.3	Girl, I'm feeling good.
0:14.4	I love Ramadan.
0:15.4	And I know everybody says it, but it's honestly my most favorite time of the year.
0:19.8	Yeah, it's crazy how like even though we're
0:21.8	not eating and drinking my mood changes completely for the better yeah i feel like i'm all holy
0:27.7	and like listening to lectures and everything right i wish i was like this all out the year yeah and i think
0:34.3	we should find a way to keep this momentum going.
0:40.8	I know we're still in the beginning of Ramadan, and I'm kind of talking about towards the end.
0:43.0	But it's just, it's a really nice month.
0:47.8	I feel like you have way more time to actually connect with your faith and your family.
0:48.8	In your family, yeah. It's actually all of us sit down at the same time on a dinner table at this age is really nice because everybody's always working exactly everyone always has like different schedules so it's nice that everyone can align
0:58.4	there is during Ramadan yeah and have like an actual family dinner when we're sitting on the
1:02.8	table talking and and just having fun with them and for some reason food tastes 10 times better
1:08.0	in Ramadan like it's like oh kif, we're having kifta today.
1:11.4	I'm delicious.
1:13.2	I'm a vegetarian and I set like salivating over like meat during Ramadan.
1:17.0	Yeah, so what do you eat during Ramadan?
1:18.3	I mean, look, do you feel like more tired?
1:20.3	I don't know if this is offensive to people that don't eat meat, but do you feel like
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