How do I validate myself in my struggles with secondary infertility?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 25 July 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with Moriah and answer the question “How do I validate myself in my struggles with secondary infertility?” Moriah has two children from a previous relationship, but she and her husband of four years have been unable to have a child of their own. She is in a unique position where she belongs to the infertility community but feels guilty for struggling with that heartache when she already has two children.Moriah wants to have a biological child with her husband. That is ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships. Join me here every week as I coach a
0:40.2	listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing. I'm so thrilled to welcome
0:46.8	Mariah to the program today. Welcome, Mariah. Hi, thank you so much for having me. Thanks for being here.
0:56.0	What is your question for me today? So I feel like I need to give you a little bit of backstory to give me a question. Okay.
1:01.0	So my husband and I have been married for almost four years. And we have two kids, not together. He adopted them two years ago.
1:11.3	Okay.
1:12.7	And they're from a previous marriage.
1:19.2	And we have been trying to have our own baby the entire time that we have been married.
1:21.3	And it just hasn't happened. And we've been diagnosed with secondary unexplained infertility.
1:25.1	And we are getting ready to do our IVF cycle next month. And we're at a
1:29.6	really good place in our IVF process, I guess, like our infertility process. Yeah. But we have started
1:38.2	like an infertility podcast and we're constantly like working with all of these other people that are
1:43.2	experiencing infertility in different ways.
1:46.0	And having secondary infertility is really hard when you're trying to feel like you belong
1:55.4	to the infertility community because it's kind of hard to say.
1:59.1	Like I feel a lot of guilt for having kids when I still at the same time am going through
2:07.9	infertility.
2:08.9	So I guess my question is, how do I honor my infertility journey and everything that
2:15.3	we've been through with that well still like
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