The Infertile Midwife
Should I Delete That?
Alex Light & Em Clarkson
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This week on the podcast, the girls are joined by Sophie Martin, AKA The Infertile Midwife. After getting married and settling down, Sophie and her husband decided they wanted to have a baby. After years of trying, and spending all their savings on IVF, Sophie’s hope was waning, and all the while she was surrounded with new mothers and babies every single day at work. Sophie shares all the trials and tribulations in her pursuit of motherhood, the indescribable highs and heartbreaking lows. This episode contains discussions of baby loss, so please listen with caution.
You can pre-order Sophie’s memoir here: https://geni.us/theinfertilemidwife
And follow Sophie on Instagram @the.infertile.midwife
Sands Support: https://www.sands.org.uk/
Dad Still Standing: https://www.dadstillstanding.com/
The Miscarriage Association: https://www.miscarriageassociation.org.uk/
Get A Life: His & Hers Survival Guide to IVF: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Get-Life-Hers-Survival-Guide/dp/1409155013
The Fertility Network: https://fertilitynetworkuk.org/
Email us at shouldideletethatpod@gmail.com
Produced & Edited by Daisy Grant
Music by Alex Andrew
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement for Better Health. We love Better Health but should |
| 0:04.2 | I delete that. It's making it's therapy accessible and mental health is something that M and I |
| 0:08.8 | are really passionate about. We talk a lot about we've been very open and transparent about our own |
| 0:13.9 | mental health struggles. I think for a long time the idea of therapy felt like something quite |
| 0:18.8 | to do and we weren't very open about it and one of the things that I am most proud of for both |
| 0:23.0 | me and Alex is how open we are about this and in turn hearing from so many of you guys who have |
| 0:28.8 | used Better Health and really benefited from it I think the more we talk about it the better it is. |
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| 1:26.7 | people really don't understand that because they're like you should be happy now it's not a binary |
| 1:36.7 | of like all you're happy or sad I hurt no one else by doing IVF. Hershey's so amazing that I want |
| 1:42.2 | another one of him because he's so cool. Hello and welcome back should I delete that? I'm Alex |
| 1:52.8 | and I'm Clarkson. How are you? I'm good how are you? I'm good. I need to talk about my awkward. |
| 1:58.3 | Oh god yeah go because it happened last night and I actually don't know if I should tell it because |
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