“I Feel Like I’m Going Through This Alone” | We Open Up About The Hardest Stage Of Our Fertility Journey
He Said, She Said
Staying Relevant Productions
4.3 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, Louise and Ryan head straight from egg retrieval into the podcast chairs, so there’s no better place to start than a real-time update on their fertility journey. What follows is a raw and incredibly honest conversation about how they’re both actually feeling through the process. Louise opens up about feeling unsupported at times, while Ryan shares how difficult he’s finding it to be the support system she needs while navigating his own emotions too.
We then move onto some of the hot topics in the news this week, from the controversies surrounding the Met Gala to the shocking statistic that 1 in 4 children are reportedly not potty trained by the time they start school… which leads to a bigger conversation about where the responsibility really lies.
And we end on a very sweet listener question from a dad wondering which public bathroom is most appropriate to take his young daughter into.
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| 0:00.0 | I like the care is really helping me out today. So I don't know what I was thinking when I turned up to the clinic this morning in a little bubble, like mid-axie skirt and a top that my boots are basically busting out of. And these buttons keep opening. |
| 0:14.0 | Oh, the buttons keep opening. Is that what's up? Buttons keep popping off. Oh, okay. I know. I think it's... I've missed this whole show. The microphone's right down the centre of your shirt. |
| 0:23.0 | Yeah, no, and that's why I've now got a modesty shawl on. |
| 0:27.9 | A modesty shawl. |
| 0:29.4 | Just so that everyone's not in my tides. |
| 0:33.6 | So for anybody that doesn't know where we've been this morning, Ryan and I were up in |
| 0:37.9 | Houston at a fertility clinic and we were coming to the end of our third IVF cycle and I had an |
| 0:45.4 | egg retrieval. How do you feel after your egg retrieval? I'm going to be honest, I feel quite |
| 0:52.0 | woozy today. Big ups. So expect a different kind of episode. Fair play, though. I mean, to have that done a few hours ago and to be sat here is pretty, pretty impressive. Thank you. Yeah. I think it was feeling quite ambitious about it. Given that it's our third cycle, I thought I'm a dab hand at this so I can handle it. You are daub hand. You're just like roll straight into the podcast the same afternoon. It's a different process, I think, for girls and boys. You boys are like limbering up for your... Shop, shop....involvement. And we have to go through... I don't want to compare, but it's definitely different. |
| 1:30.1 | Oh, yeah, sure. |
| 1:30.7 | I feel really relieved. |
| 1:32.3 | I feel happy to have had it done. |
| 1:35.6 | Well done. |
| 1:36.6 | And also, I thought it would be nice to come on the podcast just to speak really candidly about the experience. |
| 1:43.3 | Okay. |
| 1:44.0 | Given that it's so fresh. |
| 1:45.9 | But today specifically, or the whole cycle of... |
| 1:48.4 | Yeah, I think like, look, we're quite honest people. |
| 1:52.8 | Like, we've shared a lot about our fertility journey and it's not always easy. |
| 1:57.9 | But often it is easier to talk about things like retrospectively looking back and commenting on them |
| 2:03.6 | when you've kind of processed them and overcome them but given that this is something that just |
| 2:07.4 | happened to me this morning I think it's also important to be really honest to people about how |
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