This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. We have like girls night once, once a month.

We get together and we get food and one time we've did all of our nails. So it's like we get to make

fun of people that are pregnant sometimes or make fun of people who don't understand IVF a little

bit. So it's kind of like we use dark humor.

I also just laugh because that is the way you survive it.

It's been life-saving.

It's been absolutely life-saving.

I mean, my husband's wonderful, and he can listen to me all day long,

but at the end of the day, he cannot comprehend.

Whereas I can call you guys and you will spiral with me all the way down and then bring me

right back up.

And that's what I need.

So we literally laugh and cry together.

We just understand.

We don't have to explain anything.

Like if we say this is how we're feeling, we understand it completely.

In August 2024, about four months after the Center for Reproductive Health closed,

I flew to Nashville to meet with some of the former patients of the clinic,

like Sarah Davis and Penny Co.

Sarah and Penny didn't know each other before all this happened,

but they became fast friends.

They were in similar situations. Both had been undergoing IUIs at CRH, not in vitro fertilization.

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