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The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

EP215: Two of Life's Hardest Seasons: Infertility and Motherhood with Megan Smalley

The Pregnancy to Parenting Show with Elizabeth Joy

Elizabeth Presta

Education, Parenting, Kids & Family, Self-improvement

4.23.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Being a mom was Megan’s dream. At twenty-seven, Megan was told IVF would be her only chance to have a biological baby. This started Megan and her husband on a four-year journey of waiting, hoping and inconceivable heartache. Tragically, after her first round of IVF, Megan did not become pregnant after transferring their only three embryos, and their savings was completely spent. This was the darkest time of her life. She wrote her book, Give Grace, and created a Sisterhood to guide women going through this season of life.

Megan's website: https://www.megansmalley.com

Megan's book: https://www.megansmalley.com/givegracebook

The Infertility Sisterhood: https://the-infertility-sisterhood.mn.co

I Love Someone Facing Infertility: https://www.theinfertilitysisterhood.com/i-love-someone-facing-infertility

Megan's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/megansmalley

Elizabeth's website: https://miraculousmamas.com

Miraculous Mamas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/miraculousmamas

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Maraccio's Mama's podcast.

0:09.0

We believe in empowering women through storytelling and education.

0:12.9

And we're all on this journey together of learning more, finding out our options and discovering

0:22.4

what works for us.

0:23.4

That's why I love interviewing different people who believe different things who come from

0:27.8

different viewpoints who have different stories because at some point one of those is going

0:32.8

to resonate with you or you're going to learn something that you're like, oh my gosh,

0:35.4

I didn't even know that this was an option and go for it.

0:39.5

And that's what it's all about.

0:40.9

Even interviewing people that have not viewpoints that are the same as mine, like that we don't

0:48.2

agree on certain things or I choose to do some things differently in my home.

0:52.6

And I think that that's so important because when you learn better, you can do better or

0:56.9

when you just learn your options, you're like, like I said before, like, wow, I didn't,

1:01.8

I didn't know this was a thing.

1:02.8

I didn't know people were doing this.

1:05.8

And I've found that with like tandem nursing.

1:07.6

I feel like I haven't found a lot of options or a lot of resources.

1:12.8

Somebody just reached out to me and was asking me about breastfeeding through pregnancy and

1:16.4

resources.

1:17.4

And I'm like, I didn't find a lot.

1:20.5

Even trying to Google things that there just like wasn't tons out there.

1:24.0

And I'm like, I just did, I guess I was just in the moment doing what I feel trying to

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