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You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford

Ep 170: Our Fertility Journey (part 1)

You're Welcome with Hilary Rushford

Hilary Rushford

Arts, Entrepreneur, Fashion & Beauty, Fashion, Deanstreetsociety, Entrepreneurship, Stylist, Business

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

ICYMI my recent announcement on Instagram, we’ve been on a fertility journey for the last 6 years.

From my first appointment about egg freezing when single, through multiple rounds of (failed) embryo freezing, to moving forward with a surrogate (gestational carrier), and our first embryo transfer last week!

Today I’m answering Q’s you submitted about the process, thoughts, feelings, and decisions along the way.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You're welcome. What was that? You're welcome with Hillary Rushford. Say it again. You're welcome.

0:11.5

In advance. Friend, it is so surreal to be chatting with you today about my fertility story.

0:22.6

It has been six years of having conversations in my head thinking about what I would say

0:29.8

or share with you when the time came and it feels like it's been the longest time as I sat down

0:36.8

to gather my notes today and try to remember and put myself back where I was six years ago.

0:43.0

And now all of a sudden it also suddenly feels like it's happening so fast. We will find out in

0:49.5

literally 72 hours from when I'm recording this if our first embryo worked and we're pregnant.

0:57.1

And I've been quite calm during what is called an IVF world, the two-week weight, which is

1:04.4

actually only a nine-day weight. So it's really a week weight which was nice to realize because we

1:08.9

were prepped for the full two-week weight. And maybe I'll share more on Instagram in real time. Why

1:14.8

I think I'm so calm. I was writing about it in my elegant excellence journal this morning,

1:19.8

really reflecting on I would love to have this piece in so many other areas of my life.

1:26.3

So why do I think that I am finding it in this one when it would be incredibly intense,

1:32.0

but at the moment I am feeling a lot of peace. And I'm also kind of feeling like I'm in my new

1:42.3

mom era in that Freddie Capuchino. Our little cat has been sleeping with us since we got back a

1:48.0

week ago from telling our families in person. And I love that he's sleeping with us because he was

1:54.0

kind of out of a habit for a while. But he is sleeping so close to me. He usually sleeps at the

1:58.8

foot of our bed. He is like right up in my legs that I keep feeling him when I go to roll over

2:04.9

and it's waking me up. And I record these podcast episodes also on video with the idea that we might

2:13.4

post them on YouTube one day. So normally before I record a podcast I do my hair, my makeup.

2:18.9

Today I was like, I'm just too tired. I'm just too tired. Like bare face, hair back in a pony,

2:25.2

we're good. Like if this is the era that we're moving into, I barely do my hair make up as is when

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