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Polpacy, we're gonna meet Amanda Adeliye,

a reproductive endocrinologist based at the University of Chicago.

She's someone who helps people get pregnant,

and she loves what she does.

It's a great intersection of science, things that are cutting edge,

but you get to build these relationships with patients,

and if you're successful, then hopefully you're helping them to have a family.

And because all kinds of people want to start a family,

Amanda's patients come from all walks of life.

It might be an infertile heterosexual couple

that's been trying for five years.

A same sex couple that's been hoping to start their family,

fertility care for transgender and non-binary people,

people who are interested in fertility preservation,

transgender women, or people who are assigned male at birth,

but are interested in freezing sperm.

The population isn't just heterosexual,

cisgender people trying to have families,

it's everybody trying to have families.

Amanda's specialty is in vitro fertilization, or IVF.

The fertility technique which combines egg and sperm outside the body,

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