The Fifth Floor: IVF and me

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

When BBC Mundo journalist Ana Maria Roura found out she couldn't get pregnant, she decided to turn the camera on herself and document her struggle to become a parent through in vitro fertilisation, or IVF. Her documentary, Infertile, is available in Spanish and in English. Plus, the science of super-centenarians, with BBC World Service journalist Fernando Duarte.

Presented by Faranak Amidi. Produced by Alice Gioia and Caroline Ferguson.

(Photo: Faranak Amidi. Credit: Tricia Yourkevich.)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
0:07.8	This is the fifth floor.
0:11.5	The fifth floor, you knowssonous.
0:15.9	This is the fifth floor at Farnak Amidi Sobath. This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all
0:27.7	around the world. I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.
0:36.9	According to the World Health Organization,
0:40.0	almost one in five people of reproductive age in the world experience infertility.
0:49.3	One of them is my colleague, Maria Rura from BBC Mundo.
0:58.4	For the past 10 years, Anna Maria has been trying to have a baby,
1:02.5	undergoing four rounds of IVF treatments.
1:06.0	That's in vitro fertilization,
1:08.7	a process where eggs are removed from a woman's ovaries and fertilized
1:13.2	in a laboratory. Anna Maria is a journalist. She's used to telling stories about other people's
1:19.7	struggles, but this time she decided to turn the camera on herself and document her long
1:25.7	and complex journey. Well, it's the day one,
1:30.8	after the transferencia.
1:32.8	Here comes a large-spere.
1:35.0	The result is a very powerful documentary
1:38.0	available in Spanish and English called Infertile.
1:42.2	Our struggle to become parents.
1:44.8	Anna Maria is here with me in the fifth floor studio today.
1:48.3	Welcome, Anna Maria.
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