098. Amanda is sharing her IVF journey at 45. Amanda met her husband at 25 and married at 30. As a couple they thought about not have children at all. That is, until she was in her early 30's when her husband suggest they have children after he questioned what are they doing this for. She is the oldest of four kids and was a nanny all through college. She was flexible and had her son, spontaneously at 34 after a heartbreaking pregnancy loss. She had a great pregnancy with her first baby. Amanda's husband was ready for a second right away but Amanda wasn't sure. She started a business and time went on. In her early 40's she wondered if she waited too long to have a baby. At 44, she had an epiphany that if she wanted another baby, she better make the decision now. Not wanting to wait, she assumed her only option was IVF, and made consultation appointments with a few clinics in North Texas. Find out how her IVF journey went, her pregnancy, a surprising birth and recovery.

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097. Jessica is on to share her spontaneous pregnancy story at 41. She is sharing her story 14 months postpartum. Jessica met her future husband at 33 and married him when she was 37. They discussed having kids briefly, but her priority was finishing school to become an occupational therapist. She knew she wanted a family. Before getting married she wanted to prepare her body for pregnancy by weening off birth control and getting her hormones tested. She took B vitamins, probiotics, and a mushroom extract vitamin for weakness in one of her ovaries. Six months before her wedding, she got the call where she was told her AMH is low. She was told she could get pregnant, but it would be challenging. Find out her journey to seeing a fertility specialist to manifesting her spontaneous pregnancy.

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096. On episode 96, we have Allison on to share her pregnancy journey at 43. Growing up, Allison was always babysitting and spent summers being a camp counselor. She spent lots of time around children, but being a mom wasn’t an obvious choice for her. She had friends that either couldn’t wait to be a mom or never wanted to be a mom, but she didn’t feel like she fit on either side. She’s been with her husband for 15 years who has two children who she is very close with. She loves to travel and wasn’t sure motherhood was for her. When she turned 40, she married the same year and starting really thinking about having a baby. Find out why she went straight to IVF to gender select a girl, her five egg retrievals that led to her journey to motherhood.

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095. We have single mother by choice, Melissa on to share her IVF journey at 42. At 40, she thought she was probably running out of time to have a baby but always wanted to be a mother. Her friends suggested she should get a dog instead. She got a golden retriever she named Marvin. After having Marvin for a year, Melissa decided she still wanted to conceive. She says she hasn’t met the person she wants to have a child with yet, so find out how she did this journey on her own.

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BE04: We are discussing 10 ways to prepare for a transfer. I created this list based off of research, my experience of two transfers and ways that guests have shared from their stories. If you are like me, you are searching the internet on how to make this transfer successful. You might feel like the more you do, the higher the chances are of it being successful. I suggest doing what feels good to you from this list. Because you can do all of them and it work, and you can do none of them and it work.

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT medical advice. I am not a doctor, so talk with your doctor about doing any of things.

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094. We have Rosanne Austin on to share her spontaneous pregnancy at 44. She is the creator of the Fearlessly Fertile Method and host of the Fearlessly Fertile Podcast. She helps women get and stay pregnant by leveraging the mind-body connection. She started her career as a prosecutor in California when she and her husband wanted to start a family. She was prosecuting sex crimes into her late 30's. Her plans for getting pregnant on her timeline weren't working. She didn't even want to bother working with her OBGYN and wanted to go straight to a fertility clinic. Her OBGYN had previously told her she was close to 40, so it would be hard for her to get pregnant. She took that advise to heart. When she went to the fertility clinic the pressure got worse. Join us how she shares her IVF experience to changing her mindset to her fearless pregnancy.

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093. We have Kayla on to share her spontaneous pregnancy at 41. Kayla lives in Bay City, Michigan with her husband and 13-month old son. Kayla never really wanted to have kids, that is until her 40th birthday. Her and her husband decided to try to have a baby. She had been on birth control for 26-years, so she assumed it would take some time for her body to adjust. She was pregnant quickly. Find out how loss of her first pregnancy made her desire for a baby even stronger and how back surgery could have helped her conceive her rainbow baby.

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092. We have Selah on to share her spontaneous pregnancy at 41. You might know her for her older mom and boy mom skits on IG or as the voice of Chloe Bourgeois. She started trying to conceive in her early thirties. After three years of trying, she started to be more intentional by tracking her ovulation and temperature, but nothing happened. She went to a fertility clinic for help. They cleaned out her fallopian tubes, scraped her uterus and removed a garden of polyps on her uterus. She was never officially diagnosed, but she had an endometrioma on her uterus. Her periods were extremely painful. Then she had two IUI's, but that didn't work. With her three egg retrievals, she only got nine eggs total, so she wasn't confident. Finally, the embryo stuck with the transfer, and she had her first son at 37. At 38, she wanted to try for a sibling, but after a year of trying, she wasn't pregnant. At 39, right before Christmas, she email her clinic to let them know she was ready to have another transfer. Christmas morning she woke up only to realize her cycle was late. She found out Christmas Day she was pregnant at 39 with her second baby. Selah didn’t think it was possible to get pregnant at 41.

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