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The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

IVF, Miscarriage, and emergency surgery after egg retrieval w/ Tori Halford

The Unplanned Podcast with Matt & Abby

Matt & Abby

Society & Culture

4.816.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Matt sits down with Tori Halford to talk about her raw and emotional IVF journey — from breaking off her engagement to facing infertility, miscarriage, and an emergency surgery after egg retrieval. Tori opens up about what IVF really costs (emotionally and financially), how she found strength through it all, and the realities of navigating infertility in the public eye. This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp, Wildgrain, Audible, Revolve & Nutrafol BetterHelp: Our listeners get 10% off their first month at http://BetterHelp.com/unplannedpodcast #ad Wildgrain: Wildgrain is offering our listeners $30 off the first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to http://wildgrain.com/UNPLANNED to start your subscription. Audible: Your first great love story is free when you sign up for a free 30-day trial at http://audible.com/unplanned Revolve: Shop at http://revolve.com/unplanned and use code UNPLANNED for 15% off your first order. #REVOLVEpartner Nutrafol: Find out why Nutrafol is the best-selling hair growth supplement brand at https://Nutrafol.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

With IVF, you're not supposed to take a pregnancy test, but you can. We're getting positive pregnancy tests every single day. We're so excited and the call day comes. As soon as she answered the phone, I was like, something's wrong. I've actually never talked about this before. I love the church, and I love the gospel, and I never want to come off as I'm against it, but I had a really hard time with it. You try so hard and you're putting your

0:21.1

body through so much and you're also spending money each time for it to fail again. It kind of puts you

0:26.7

at a place that can we even do this anymore? Today on Unplanned, we sat down with Tori Halford, a mom

0:32.0

and content creator who is currently going through IVF and documenting her whole journey online.

0:38.4

While her first transfer was successful, she has since been met with miscarriage and two failed embryo transfers. We talk about

0:43.7

everything from why she called off her wedding after her bishop encouraged her to the true cost

0:49.1

of IVF and what her and her husband plan to do with their leftover embryos all on today's episode.

0:57.0

Also, quick disclaimer, Abby will be sitting this episode out.

1:00.5

We just decided, given the nature of the topic, as well as everything going on in our life,

1:05.0

that it should be best for her to sit it out.

1:06.4

So appreciate you guys understanding.

1:09.0

And again, thank you so much for everyone's kindness, love,

1:13.9

prayers, thoughts, everything. It's been meaning the world to us. And we just really appreciate

1:18.4

you all. So enjoy the episode. Tori Halford, welcome to Unplanned. Thank you. Thanks for having me.

1:24.7

I'm so excited to be here. I got to ask. I feel like this is the typical

1:27.6

question. We always ask anybody on our show, but how did you and Tanner meet? What's your love story? I got to get the deep. So I want to set the scene in Utah. It's very normal for people to meet and date for three months and get married. That has to be like really scary, actually. A lot of times they kind of describe it as like, it's going to be your prince charming and it's going to be this big epic love story and you're going to be married and you're going to be happily ever after. Where for me it was, I mean, I'm happily ever after now, but that process of dating was a very like a crucible in my life. was kind of the moment where I broke free from what I thought

2:01.5

my life was going to be like and kind of decided who I wanted to be as a person so Tanner and I met

2:06.3

at Utah Valley University and we the first time we met he was kind of hanging around with some guys

2:12.0

that I already kind of knew that I was like we call him the Provo All-Stars in Utah but they're basically

2:16.0

like the gym bros and the dudes

2:19.1

like the frat boys kind of got it he came and approached me he I had my soccer friend with me a soccer

2:25.0

teammate and we were kind of chatting he asked for both of our numbers and as soon as he did that I was like

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