Ep 143 IVF, Part 1: Infertility

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Content Warning: mentions of infertility, pregnancy loss We’re coming at you with not one, not two, but THREE whole episodes on IVF (in vitro fertilization) and other forms of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) over the next several weeks. Our first episode in this series starts things off with a broad examination of infertility over space and time. We take a closer look at headlines claiming infertility is on the rise, leading us to ask how we assess and measure infertility and whether those headlines take into account the changing meanings of the concept of infertility over human history. After our voyage through the social history of infertility, we explain what to expect when you go in for fertility testing, covering some of the most common causes of infertility and what “unexplained infertility” means as a diagnosis. But perhaps the most important part of this episode and the rest of this series are the firsthand accounts contributed by listeners who share some of the most intimate and emotional parts of their lives. We are forever indebted to all of you. Tune in today for part one of this series! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.4	On my 35th birthday, after talks with my husband and deciding we were ready to start a family,
0:38.0	I stopped taking my birth control pills. After a year I had not gotten pregnant, so we met with a fertility specialist who had me undergo a lot of different kinds of tests, some that were really painful and invasive, and he determined that I have polycystic ovary syndrome, but found no other underlying issues.
0:53.4	PCOS can make it difficult to get pregnant naturally so my doctor recommended I try
0:58.1	entry uterine andsemination. I ended up doing four IUIs with him none of which resulted in a pregnancy before I started saying a new doctor who recommended I move on to IVF.
1:08.0	My egg retrieval resulted in five healthy embryos that we had frozen. And since then I have undergone three
1:14.2	embryo transfers but none of them resulted in a pregnancy either. I've done
1:18.2	genetic testing, countless rounds of blood work and ultrasounds, a mock
1:21.4	transfer cycle, a hysteroscopy, and
1:23.7	HSG scan, I stopped eating gluten, dairy, and sugar. I do monthly
1:27.8	ovulation tracking, have regular acupuncture and meditation sessions,
1:31.4	made my fertility a full-time job and still I have no answers.
1:36.0	I just turned 39 and I'm always wondering why not me?
1:40.0	My friends are all having kids and growing their families exactly as they had planned.
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