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Our American Stories

Why She Chose to Celebrate Her Pregnancy With a 50% Chance of Survival

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Lex Ginger was told from a young age that she probably would never have children, so she was shocked when she got pregnant. Some questioned her decision to celebrate this pregnancy that had only a 50% chance of survival. Here she is with her incredible story.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.6

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

0:48.1

Up next, you'll hear a story from Lex Ginger,

0:51.4

a woman who has a remarkable journey

0:53.4

and is quite possibly the only person

0:56.2

to be sworn in as an attorney in the maternity ward of a hospital. Here's Lex. I'd always known

1:05.1

that I could potentially have fertility issues. So I have something called polycystic ovary syndrome where you have like little cyst all over your ovaries and it can make getting pregnant kind of difficult.

1:17.2

So I'd always been told that when I was starting at 18 and since then I've even discovered I have a blood clotting disorder called factor 5, which makes miscarriages very likely. It makes maintaining a

1:30.3

pregnancy very difficult, higher chance of stillbirth, et cetera. Very dangerous. I had told my

1:35.9

husband early on while we were dating that I wasn't sure if I could get pregnant and everything,

1:41.5

and he said that didn't bother him whatsoever. We were in love, et cetera.

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