Having babies after 35 with Dr Shannon Clark

Sex, Body, and Soul

Kate Roberts

Education, Relationships, Sexuality, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.1 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dr Shannon Clark is a double board certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Maternal-Fetal Medicine Specialist focusing on the care of women with maternal and/or fetal complications of pregnancy. We talk about our dual journeys of trying to get pregnant at the age of 40, both having IVF and both successfully having children, Shannon with a donor egg, giving birth to twins! It's all too common that we are delaying our pregnancies, so this podcast discusses the options, opportunities, and risks.

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0:00.0	no matter what form of assistive reproductive technology you're going through, the most important thing is that you trust your doc.
0:07.0	Welcome to Sex, Body and Soul. I'm Kate Roberts, founder of the Body Agency, and on this show, we talk about the marvel that is our bodies, what they can do and what they need to thrive.
0:19.8	Ladies out there, our time is now.
0:22.6	Let's get to it.
0:25.4	Our next guest is Dr. Shannon Clark.
0:28.2	She is a double board certified OBGYN,
0:32.0	a maternal fetal medicine specialist.
0:34.8	Dr. Clark has taken a very special interest in pregnancy over the age of 35,
0:40.1	which like me, she was nearing 40 when she started to think about having our own children.
0:45.9	We have a super interesting discussion about our own personal experiences and what it really
0:52.5	takes to have what is considered an advanced high-risk pregnancy.
0:58.2	Welcome to the show, Dr. Shannon Clark.
1:01.2	Dr. Shannon Clark, welcome to the show.
1:03.6	Thank you for having me.
1:04.6	Shannon, you know, I feel like it's necessary to just open up here.
1:09.3	All of us are watching the news and seeing what's going on in the
1:14.3	Ukraine. And yesterday, we heard that the Russians had bombed a maternity hospital. And I actually
1:24.4	saw you on social media talking about it. You know, having given birth myself and
1:30.1	knowing how vulnerable you are at that time, we rely on people like you to take us through that.
1:37.4	What must have that been like in the Ukraine for all of those women who had either just given
1:43.5	birth or giving birth at the time.
1:45.3	I just can't imagine. I mean, I can't imagine. I've never been through anything like that.
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