Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you hit speed bumps on the road to having kids? Today, your stories of IVF, IUI, adoption, choosing to not have kids and managing your expectations through it all.

We're putting together an audio survival kit for listeners going through infertility. If you've struggled with infertility, tell us—what's helped you through it? Tell us about the things you've listened to, read, done or thought to yourself in a voice memo (please keep it to under a minute) and send it in to [email protected].

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0:00.0	I think the moment I realized that becoming a parent would be more difficult than I imagined
0:05.8	was after my wife's second miscarriage.
0:09.8	After one, we told ourselves, I mean, this is probably a fluke.
0:13.3	The second one was a little more ominous, I started to feel like a pattern.
0:17.9	By the third, we were a couple with a fertility problem.
0:22.4	By the fourth, I was just numb.
0:25.0	I had to kind of wall off my hopes to protect them because it was just too painful.
0:31.3	This is death, sex, and money.
0:37.2	This is my life, my life, and fertility.
0:40.1	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:43.5	All the frustration of going through the treatments and the weighting, ups and downs.
0:48.0	And need to talk about more.
0:49.3	The thing is, we feel so called to be parents.
0:53.2	I'm Anna Sale.
0:55.5	Back in July, we put out an episode with author and podcast host, Story Shefrere, about
1:00.8	her experience with infertility and IVF.
1:04.2	Going through the process, going into over $100,000 in debt, and ultimately having a kid.
1:11.5	In that episode, we asked you to tell us about how you started your own families.
1:16.5	And for people who have struggled with infertility, about the moment you realized having kids
1:21.6	was going to be harder than you anticipated.
1:24.6	We heard from a lot of you, including this listener, Declan.
1:28.2	I have been thinking a lot and doing a lot of research about infertility since I was diagnosed
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