E245: The Craziest Fertility Story I've Heard w/Alex Gooding | Lila Rose Show
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Content creator and mother of eight, Alex Gooding, shares her extraordinary fertility journey, defying doctors who told her she’d never conceive. With 8 children earth side and a few in heaven, Alex has faced it all: unplanned pregnancy, infertility, carrying twins, miscarriage, NICU, IVF, terminal diagnosis, ectopic pregnancy, pressure to abort, and more.
As Alex and her husband navigated both challenges and blessings, they learned more each step of the way about the sacredness of human life and God's plan for fertility. In this raw and honest conversation, Alex also reveals the shortcomings of modern obstetric care and the complex moral problems of IVF. Alex’s story is a beacon of hope for mothers facing infertility and life-altering choices. If her journey resonates, please share this episode to support others who feel alone in their struggles.
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| 0:00.0 | They lost our one and only boy embryo. |
| 0:02.7 | What do you mean they lost it? |
| 0:03.8 | That's a good question. |
| 0:04.9 | These are not the things that they tell you when you're signing up or IVF. And he's like, this is life threatening. You could die. Your baby will die. You need to go have a DNC today. They put you under, you weren't sure if you were gonna wake up. Yeah. It's messy. It's beautiful, but it's very messy. |
| 0:03.4 | When I saw your story, I was like, |
| 0:23.9 | she's my hero. And now you're really my hero. I've heard hundreds of stories on this show, |
| 0:32.8 | but this one might be the craziest. It also made me laugh and cry a lot. |
| 0:38.3 | Time and time again, Alex Gooding was faced with an option of life or death for her and her babies. |
| 0:44.3 | Time and time again, doctors would tell Alex that she should terminate in order to save her life. |
| 0:51.3 | But in an amazing show of strength, courage, and sacrificial love, |
| 0:56.3 | Alex fought for both her life and her children's lives. In this interview, you'll also hear |
| 1:00.7 | about Alex's experience with IVF. Now, we've covered IVF on this show many times before, and we've |
| 1:06.8 | discussed the many ethical issues with IVF, including the fact that there's over |
| 1:11.5 | one million babies who are currently frozen in IVF clinics, as well as the millions of |
| 1:17.5 | babies' lives who are discarded or destroyed via the IVF process. If you want to learn more about |
| 1:23.5 | the ethical issues with IVF, including from the perspective of former IVF doctors, |
| 1:28.9 | you can click the link in the description. |
| 1:30.8 | It's crucial to note, too, that while the process of IVF is not moral, once a baby is conceived, |
| 1:35.6 | that baby is infinitely precious and unconditionally loved by God and equal to every other baby. |
| 1:40.6 | So we celebrate every single baby, no matter how they were conceived. |
| 1:44.1 | If you or someone you |
| 1:45.0 | love are ever facing an emergency medical situation regarding bioethics, so you're not sure what |
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