EP 59: IVF and Us

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Black women have lower success rates when it comes to IVF (in-vitro fertilization) But why? We hear from Charissa Jackson who shares her journey about going through IVF. We also look into some of the reasons why Black women tend to have higher infertility rates, something that's explained by Dr. Michael Thomas, a reproductive endocrinologist who says one of the reasons why this is happening, is a reason many of us have heard before.

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0:00.0	Hey Lila. Hey, Hannah. Hannah, today I want us to talk about IVF. IVF. In vitro fertilization,
0:12.0	okay? There are so many women coming forward sharing their stories about trying to get pregnant.
0:20.5	And there's also this, Hannah. There's research that suggests that black women have lower
0:26.4	success rates when it comes to IVF. Lower success rates. Why? We need to stoop this out.
0:36.4	This is my voice. It can tell you a lot about me and I'm not changing it for anyone.
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0:50.0	black experience. Search MPR black stories, black truths, wherever you get podcasts.
1:02.5	The stoop. The stoop. The stoop. The stoop. Stories coming across the black diaspora.
1:09.5	My cousins were water and grease girls and I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
1:13.5	That's what I'm talking about, ballerina in the hood. Weebie, golly-geechia,
1:16.8	90 people. When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor, what preconceived notions do you have
1:24.7	about her? I didn't even know we had a hair shark. This stoop. A quick note to our listeners,
1:37.6	we are going to be talking about loss, so take care of yourself while listening.
1:43.2	No matter where this journey takes us, I have learned that I am my own advocate and to never forget it.
1:54.9	This is Sherissa Jackson. When I started to open up about this journey, I promised myself I would
2:01.0	show the good, the bad, and the ugly. She lives in Little Rock, Arkansas and she's reading from
2:07.4	some posts she's made online about her IVF journey. And she's got a list of questions that she's
2:14.0	prepared for her next round of IVF. She would be doing genetic testing at this point.
2:21.3	Should I have had a sonogram to look for scar tissue in the uterus before we started trying
2:26.7	for baby number two? Is there anything stronger to suppress endometriosis?
2:33.6	So Sherissa and her husband Dre got married in 2008. And they knew right away that they wanted to
2:42.2	start a family. We went probably for about probably about two or three years just trying on our own.
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