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🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | Alicia never expected to wind up in a fertility clinic, because she never thought she'd |
0:07.4 | want to have children. |
0:09.4 | She grew up in Jamaica with a lot of responsibilities for her siblings. |
0:13.6 | So I am one of five, the second of said five, but I'm the first girl, and in my culture, |
0:22.7 | you are required to help your mommy out. |
0:26.2 | You don't have a safe soul in it, and so bottles were done by me. |
0:31.2 | Laundry was done by me since I was nine years old, and I hated the last part of it. |
0:36.5 | So I always told myself, when I got older, I didn't want kids. |
0:39.8 | And the sad part about it is I think the tongue is so, it's powerful, so you got to be very |
0:45.1 | careful with what you said. |
0:47.8 | What do you mean? |
0:49.0 | I think because of, I mean, having chills, because all my life I've said I didn't want |
0:55.0 | kids that I spoke that into existence. |
0:58.7 | Now for a lot of people that doesn't, it's not real to them, for me it is real. |
1:05.0 | So that's why I mean when I say the tongue is powerful, because I kept telling myself |
1:09.3 | I didn't want children, and I feel whoever I pray to listen to me. |
1:12.9 | And then when I wanted children, I was in a position where my only way of having kids |
1:18.3 | was via IVF. |
1:20.9 | Alicia was in her 20s when she decided she wanted to have children. |
1:25.0 | She was in a relationship then with the man who would become her husband. |
1:29.0 | Someone she met when she moved to the U.S. |
1:32.0 | She tried to get pregnant and nothing was happening. |
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