"I Never Expected Getting Pregnant Would Be This Hard"
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Keren Longo AKA @mama.in.the.burbs to hear about her fertility journey. She opens up about her struggles to get pregnant, her experiences with IVF and IUI, the complications that arose along the way, her recent miscarriage, and more. She shares how she overcame all of these challenges, what she wishes she knew when she started trying to get pregnant, and what has kept her going throughout all of the ups and downs.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and you're listening to Seeing Other People Unfiltered. |
| 0:09.8 | It's Thursday, so that means real-life daters are coming on to share their real, sometimes shocking, and always unfiltered experiences. |
| 0:17.8 | Think you're alone out there? |
| 0:18.9 | Think you're the only one whose ex hooked up with your mom or whose last date |
| 0:22.5 | ended up being a catfish. |
| 0:23.9 | Think again. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey guys. |
| 0:26.1 | It's Lana and welcome back for another episode of seeing other people. |
| 0:30.7 | We are here with my ex-neigh-neigh-turned-friend, Karen Longo, aka her new |
| 0:36.8 | alias alter ego, Mama in the Burbs, Karen Longo, aka her new alias alter ego mama in the verbs. |
| 0:41.1 | Karen, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:46.1 | I'm so happy to have you. |
| 0:47.4 | And I just want to say I'm really, really proud of you for what you recently started doing. |
| 0:51.5 | And I hope you realize, like, the impact that it's already had and |
| 0:55.4 | the impact that it's going to have on so many people. Thanks. That's the goal. I realized |
| 1:00.2 | how many people were going through this just because I've been so open about it with friends |
| 1:04.4 | and acquaintances and like any stranger who will listen. So it's been great so far. That is very relatable. Yeah. So we are going to hear all about |
| 1:13.9 | Karen's fertility journey, her pregnancy journey. She is a mother of a beautiful little cutest boy |
| 1:21.8 | ever Shea. And I know there's so much more to your story than just that and just even how you got there is a whole story. So we will definitely get into that. And I just want to, again, thank you for coming on here and sharing all of this because it's not talked about nearly enough. And it's something that I know so many people do go through and so many people listening now will go through. They just don't know it yet. So the more we can talk about it, |
| 1:44.6 | the better everyone will be. Agreed. Before we get into it, I want to play our little game here. |
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