Hey, welcome back to preview lights podcast this is Sarah and this week is a special week for us it is national awareness of infertility and we're bringing back one of our guests you guys know her in love of warning for people that we are discussing infertility, which I know personally, I've walked

at road myself, it can be hard. So if you're not in the mind space, if today feels really just not the day you want to hear about it and process it some more come back to it or we'll catch you next week. But with that let's get started. Welcome back Alex Alex, how are you?

Hi, good, Sarah.

Thank you so much for having me back on here.

I really appreciate it.

And for our new listeners, because we seem to be getting some new listeners every week,

introduce yourself and kind of just bring them up to speed of who you are and what you're, I love your mission and your advocacy and your voice in the space.

Thank you so much.

Yes, so I am on Instagram and on a few other channels.

I talk a lot about my journey to becoming a mother and I went through IVF and years of that and surrogacy and a lot more to have my kids.

I also experienced recurrent pregnancy loss. I think it's great. I appreciate the fact that you just

gave people that trigger warning before we started because I know that in

general National Infertility Awareness Week is a heavy week for some people but also

it's a big subject. But I speak about it very openly about my story and I speak

about it like every day because I just think it's so important to continue to normalize these conversations as well and let people know that they're not alone if they're going through something similar.

So I just kind of talked about that. I've also transitioned and we're going to talk about this today into talking about motherhood more because I think it's a really big subject.

Motherhood comes easily to some people but not to a lot of people and I think there's this misconception that if you've gone through infertility when you become a mom or if you're dealing with infertility while parenting,

that you shouldn't complain about being,

like you shouldn't have any of the same complaints

that you just should feel grateful all the time.

And I just want to talk more about that and how you still deserve support no matter what.

Holdy and you know there's a huge correlation from even research back because we you know we love

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