Speaker 1: It was popping. It's your girl, and you're listening to
Speaker 1: exactly a mada A production of I Heart Radio Today.
Speaker 1: We have such an important topic and I was holding
Speaker 1: in my my secret for a while. Um, and everybody
Speaker 1: officially knows that I am a future mother of two.
Speaker 1: I am pregno, I am pregnant of twis super excited.
Speaker 1: This is such an amazing moment in my life. Um. However,
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily a pregnancy. I was expecting. I was
Speaker 1: looking for. I was I was wishing for eventually better,
Speaker 1: not when it happened. And I think that God's timing
Speaker 1: is perfect. Everything happens in due time. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about it this way because I know that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of girls, a lot of women that have gotten pregnant.
Speaker 1: You don't know what to do. You think that it's
Speaker 1: bad timing. You know, I've to see me being a
Speaker 1: woman in the in the entertainment industry. I'm very I'm
Speaker 1: extremely ambitious. I'm always looking for the next project. I'm
Speaker 1: always looking for the next bigger thing to do. And
Speaker 1: while being pregnant, you know, I am currently doing three
Speaker 1: TV shows. I have my podcast, I have my real estate,
Speaker 1: I have a lot of things, and I just didn't
Speaker 1: feel like I was prepared. Um. And then later on,
Speaker 1: you know, nonetheless that I think I would end up
Speaker 1: being a single mother, And that's another story. You guys
Speaker 1: can wait for another episode of that single mother's bed.
Speaker 1: I waited for so long, and I just wanted to
Speaker 1: do things the right way. I think it's also all women.
Speaker 1: We dream of getting married with the white dress and
Speaker 1: having a husband and having a home and just the
Speaker 1: fairy tale. And I didn't get my fairy tale. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I can't get it eventually, because they
Speaker 1: come onst So it doesn't mean that I can't get
Speaker 1: my fairy tale eventually. But the process of my conceiving hood,
Speaker 1: the process for me wasn't necessarily the easiest for those
Speaker 1: I got to see love in hip hop Miami. You guys, Um,
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to see a little bit into
Speaker 1: my life. UM, probably more than I would have wanted
Speaker 1: to expose in the first place. Um. I I showed
Speaker 1: you guys that I had had a miscarriage. The part
Speaker 1: that I didn't say it was I was pregnant originally
Speaker 1: with triplets, all natural. UM. Knowing vitro no, nothing like that.
Speaker 1: I come from a very fertile line of women where
Speaker 1: my grandmother had sixteen children, you know, sixteen fourteen. My
Speaker 1: my uncle has twelve kids. Like, it's a very Dominican,
Speaker 1: you know, compo thing where it's normal. And to to them,
Speaker 1: they were like, well, you're starting late. You know, you're
Speaker 1: already like, oh, during your thirties and you're gonna start
Speaker 1: having kids now. It's like, but obviously my lifestyle is different,
Speaker 1: um than there's but um. I originally was pregnant with three,
Speaker 1: I lost one, and I currently have my twins, which, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited, I'm happy. But in the process
Speaker 1: of me losing what I thought was my only pregnancy,
Speaker 1: at the moment, I cried, I suffered. I was upset
Speaker 1: physically and emotionally. Uh, mainly like emotionally because I felt
Speaker 1: like I wasn't ready but now that I feel that
Speaker 1: I'm ready, I lost my opportunity to be a mom.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe it's a it's a sign from God.
Speaker 1: And then I felt physically hurt because the cramps I
Speaker 1: was going through, you know, I was bleeding, the cramps.
Speaker 1: It was just so much because it's terrible when you
Speaker 1: have a miscarriage. I don't think a lot of people
Speaker 1: understand that you still a lot of times, you know,
Speaker 1: you still go through contractions. And I remember seeing myself bleeding,
Speaker 1: you know, my thighs. I was just bleeding, and I
Speaker 1: was like, what the hell like, this is not like
Speaker 1: a period, and I was bleeding for three weeks straight.
Speaker 1: But I also have fireboards, and that's another topic that's
Speaker 1: really important that eventually we'll talk about, because it happens
Speaker 1: a lot in the African American community. It happens a
Speaker 1: lot amongst um and a lot of women overall, you know,
Speaker 1: have fireboards. Things that you don't know till you go
Speaker 1: get that checked out, and that can also be a
Speaker 1: reason of it infertility and um and many things. So today,
Speaker 1: since um, you know my my my journey has been
Speaker 1: so public on social media, I hadn't had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to really talk about it freely like I am right now,
Speaker 1: m through my platform. And I wanted to bring a
Speaker 1: guess because you know, today's topic is about infertility and reproduction.
Speaker 1: And I know there's a lot of women out there,
Speaker 1: more than I ever even knew, that want to have
Speaker 1: babies and camp that they struggle to get pregnant. I
Speaker 1: just felt like, well, I'm a very fertile person. I'm
Speaker 1: a very fertile woman, even though that I'm just finally
Speaker 1: deciding to have kids. Now, get what I'm saying. This
Speaker 1: entertainment industry, your career is priority, and a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, if anything happened, it was like, this is
Speaker 1: not the right time. I have other priorities, right, Um,
Speaker 1: But I just never knew that there were so many
Speaker 1: women out there trying to conceive and they couldn't. So
Speaker 1: today I have my friend Rachel. I don't know took
Speaker 1: her Rachel Rachel la loga which one look English loga.
Speaker 1: I mean that if you guys didn't know, she is amazing.
Speaker 1: She has such an amazing spirit, her energy. I love
Speaker 1: what she's doing a s at three. She's a producer, writer, podcaster.
Speaker 1: She is also from Brooklyn, Gang Gang Gang, New York.
Speaker 1: Dominicana and Jewish American RDA about Mina. I had never
Speaker 1: had a jew Minicana before, but I love it. She
Speaker 1: also is a women's activist. You know, I love women
Speaker 1: that are doing other things to support and empower other
Speaker 1: women that struggle with infertility and reproduction. Rights, ask my love,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for coming in today. I am
Speaker 1: so grateful to have you. I mean, I don't even
Speaker 1: know where to start. Where are you? Oh? Right now,
Speaker 1: I'm the New York City repping the Upper east Side.
Speaker 1: You know I read Brooklyn hard, but you know I'm
Speaker 1: living in Manhattan now. Um, I'm in my crib. This
Speaker 1: is my little corner. I don't have an office. I
Speaker 1: don't have a big apartment. It's New York City, so
Speaker 1: I have a little nook where I do my podcasting
Speaker 1: from just like two walls. That's it. But it's so
Speaker 1: nice to be here, and I want to shout you
Speaker 1: out a matter for taking on the challenge of talking
Speaker 1: about this subject matter which we're told to not talk
Speaker 1: about it for the most part. Right our culture teaches
Speaker 1: us that it's taboo, that miscarry just are your own secret,
Speaker 1: something that you deal with. But when I see other
Speaker 1: women like yourself using their platforms to elevate the conversation,
Speaker 1: it's huge. You're moving mountains. These are the dialogues we
Speaker 1: need to be having because they make us stronger and
Speaker 1: more educated. And I'm so sorry for everything that you
Speaker 1: have gone through. You're an inspiration I've been following your story.
Speaker 1: We had you on the Latinos Out Loud podcast years
Speaker 1: ago when you just hit love and hip hop, and
Speaker 1: I knew from your energy what a beautiful person you
Speaker 1: are in and out. And I'm so proud of you.
Speaker 1: You're really doing it and you're doing it for women,
Speaker 1: And uh, yeah, I'm just I'm an open book. I
Speaker 1: want to share my experience and anything else you want
Speaker 1: to know. But I mean, the first thing I want
Speaker 1: to know is it is true not only in the
Speaker 1: Latino community, I also know in many other cultures. Um.
Speaker 1: When you talk about, you know, a miscarriage, it is
Speaker 1: like a secret and a lot of times it's something
Speaker 1: that uh and religiously I'm being but in many occasions
Speaker 1: they blamed women for it. You must have done something
Speaker 1: this you know, and this is a curse or this
Speaker 1: is a punishment, or this is a an A lot
Speaker 1: of times it can bring a lot of pressure onto
Speaker 1: women as if it's our fault and not because it
Speaker 1: happened through natural causes. Um. But I want to know
Speaker 1: what inspired you, what motivated you to want to be
Speaker 1: an activist for you know, reproduction rights and for women
Speaker 1: that are suffering in fertility. I went through a lot
Speaker 1: on my own. I had an uphill battle to become
Speaker 1: a mother. Um just in a nutshell, I lost five pregnancy.
Speaker 1: The first one I lost to a genetic abnormality. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I had a baby girl. I was pregnant at sixteen
Speaker 1: weeks um. They did all the testing and they found
Speaker 1: that she had a genetic abnormality. Try saw me twenty one.
Speaker 1: I had to have a d n C or an
Speaker 1: abortion where I had to terminate the pregnancy, or I
Speaker 1: chose to terminate the pregnancy at sixteen weeks um and
Speaker 1: again due to a genetic abnormality. What would have been
Speaker 1: some of the things, you know, the effects. So a
Speaker 1: try saw me is when there's an extra chromosome, um
Speaker 1: and so on. The twenty one chromosome. Baby girl had
Speaker 1: an extra one, and that is an anomaly. It's a
Speaker 1: genetic abnormality. And it's funny you say, like, you know, blame.
Speaker 1: For a long time, I was blaming myself. I was like, I,
Speaker 1: this must have been my fault during the process of
Speaker 1: you know, when when she was being formed in my womb.
Speaker 1: I must have ate something wrong. I must have had
Speaker 1: too much, I must have did something. But I did nothing.
Speaker 1: You know. The doctor explained that the chances of a
Speaker 1: woman at that time, my age, in my early thirties
Speaker 1: of having that is one in one thousand, and I
Speaker 1: kept asking myself why am I the one? Why me?
Speaker 1: But then after thinking about it and injecting faith into
Speaker 1: the situation, I realized that I had to be the
Speaker 1: one I had to represent for that one in one
Speaker 1: thousand women because I was the one chosen, because I
Speaker 1: was going to get through it, and I was going
Speaker 1: to learn from it and talk about it and motivate
Speaker 1: other women. So that was the first loss. But you know,
Speaker 1: after going through what we went through to have that baby,
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry to get have that pregnancy, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought that there was something wrong. So I went
Speaker 1: to a reproductive endocrinologist to run some tests and to
Speaker 1: see what was happening and why it took me so
Speaker 1: long to get pregnant in the first place. I was
Speaker 1: diagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome also known as PCOS, which
Speaker 1: doesn't make a woman infertile, but it's short does make
Speaker 1: her chances of getting pregnant harder. Um it's hormonal. There
Speaker 1: are hormone issues as a result. Diet issues. UM. I've
Speaker 1: been overweight my whole life until three years ago. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. UM, and that's also
Speaker 1: in play. That's part of the reason. So back to
Speaker 1: the losses. After that, I decided to undergo infertility treatments.
Speaker 1: So we started with I UI intra uterine insemination UM,
Speaker 1: and I did I U I while saying I yi
Speaker 1: yai because it's a lot on your body. Okay, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of injections, there's a lot of blood and
Speaker 1: blood thinners. I who intrunon insemination was uncomfortable. I call
Speaker 1: it the turkey based or method. Basically, they take, you know,
Speaker 1: a turkey based full of your husband's semen or your
Speaker 1: partner's semen and they just squirted up there um during
Speaker 1: your most fertile period. So that did not work. Tell
Speaker 1: tell me about this. This process is painful because I've
Speaker 1: heard so many people talk about, Oh, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: in vitro and I'm just gonna you know whatever, and
Speaker 1: they talk about it so easily, as if this is
Speaker 1: not a real process. Is this process? Does it hurt?
Speaker 1: Is it uncomfortable? What's the worst part of the process? UM?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like at this point, a lot of
Speaker 1: people are making it more like a trend. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna go get in beetro instead of understanding and realizing, yes,
Speaker 1: you can go ahead and do it for those that
Speaker 1: are financially can afford it or whatever, if you want
Speaker 1: to pick how many you want to have, the sexes,
Speaker 1: and all these other things. But this is really for
Speaker 1: a lot of women that really have issues and have
Speaker 1: problems and difficulties having being able to conceive. I love
Speaker 1: this question, oh man. Okay, you would think that from
Speaker 1: how it's depicted on media, how the celebrities talk about it.
Speaker 1: What you just mentioned that IVF is the answer. If
Speaker 1: you can't get pregnant, get IVF. It'll get you knocked up.
Speaker 1: That's the tagline. Okay, No, not that easy, not as
Speaker 1: easy breezy as one would think. Um, I'm gonna answer
Speaker 1: this part of your question first. The hardest part of
Speaker 1: IVF for me was the emotional roller coaster. Okay, the
Speaker 1: thinking that, okay, this is the solution. I've tried everything
Speaker 1: else and I'm here to get pregnant. Go ahead, reproductive
Speaker 1: endo chronologists get me pregnant. So after the first egg transfer,
Speaker 1: I remember sitting in recovery, and the doctor came up
Speaker 1: to me and said, guess what, right now, at this
Speaker 1: very moment, you're pregnant. You have an embryo that I
Speaker 1: just put inside that I hope stick to your uterus,
Speaker 1: So you're pregnant right now. And I started having a fetta.
Speaker 1: I started partying in the recovery room. I'm like, ha ha, pregnant?
Speaker 1: How how pregnant? And then a few days later, my
Speaker 1: hCG levels started to dip and I started to lose
Speaker 1: the pregnancy and I was no longer pregnant, and I
Speaker 1: couldn't figure that out. I'm like, hold up, the doctor
Speaker 1: just told me that I was pregnant in the recovery room,
Speaker 1: and now I'm not what happened? IBF. I thought you're
Speaker 1: the solution. So to break that down, it's not easy.
Speaker 1: You know, the emotional part of it is the you know,
Speaker 1: elevating your spirits. You know, your big transfer day, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get this embryo that the doctors and the biologists
Speaker 1: were working so hard on perfecting, and then they put
Speaker 1: it inside of you and you hope that it sticks.
Speaker 1: And then it's those next few weeks of just sort
Speaker 1: of waiting on the plank to find out whether you're
Speaker 1: gonna jump in or move back. And it's terrible. It's terrible. Um.
Speaker 1: I was not able to celebrate at any point during
Speaker 1: my I v F journey. And I know that sounds
Speaker 1: a bit negative and down, but I guess after losing
Speaker 1: a pregnancy, after going through all the difficulty, and then
Speaker 1: sort of you're on this like thin ice of am
Speaker 1: I gonna make it? Is this? It? Am I finally
Speaker 1: going to be a mom? And then let's talk about
Speaker 1: the financial repercussion. Being coltoso is very expensive. The people
Speaker 1: be thinking, oh, okay, I if this is gonna cause
Speaker 1: me nothing or the insurance is gonna cover no, Mama.
Speaker 1: Get doing the I v and going through the process,
Speaker 1: you thought, not only is it emotionally a roller coaster,
Speaker 1: not only is it financially in a roller coaster, not
Speaker 1: only is it physically a roller coaster, And not only
Speaker 1: for you if you're doing it by yourself, I can
Speaker 1: only but imagine it's a tough. It's tough because you
Speaker 1: have to go through the process by yourself. But if
Speaker 1: you have a partner that's also doing this process with you,
Speaker 1: let's not forget about men as well, These men that
Speaker 1: want to support their women and want to have children
Speaker 1: just as bad as it as you know, many women.
Speaker 1: This is the rot coaster of emotions for them as well.
Speaker 1: And financially, I'm sure too so so my insurance company.
Speaker 1: At the time, I was working full time as a marketer,
Speaker 1: and so the insurance covered a big percentage of the process,
Speaker 1: but the insurance did not cover the drugs. And the
Speaker 1: drugs in total. After four rounds of IVF transferring two
Speaker 1: embryos each round, and also in those second, third, and
Speaker 1: fourth rounds of IVF, the doctors also baked in another approach,
Speaker 1: you know, with other drugs needed. The drugs came out
Speaker 1: to about twenty eight thousand dollars, okay, and that is insane.
Speaker 1: That is insane between you know, just the hormones, injections,
Speaker 1: other procedures I needed before the transfer. UM, we decided
Speaker 1: to do another d n C to sort of clean
Speaker 1: me out VIKA and so then do the embryo. UM,
Speaker 1: we did something where they suppressed my immune system where
Speaker 1: I had to have an intravenous of some sort of
Speaker 1: you know, cocktails, some concoction that literally suppressed my immune
Speaker 1: system for a week, because the doctors thought that it
Speaker 1: was some sort of immuno um compromised ailment that I
Speaker 1: had that was rejecting each pregnancy from IVF because none
Speaker 1: of them were sticking for more than eight or ten weeks.
Speaker 1: At that point, I told my partner, my husband, I
Speaker 1: was like, yo, since we gave up on the procreation
Speaker 1: thing because we start having sex again, Like we stopped
Speaker 1: doing that because we were so keen on having a
Speaker 1: baby that we almost like lost the love part of
Speaker 1: making love. So after IBF, we decided to chill. And
Speaker 1: then I needed some faith, am Ata. I just felt
Speaker 1: like I wasn't praying the right way. I felt like
Speaker 1: I wasn't connecting with God the way I needed to.
Speaker 1: And so I took our CIA classes and I became baptized, confirmed,
Speaker 1: and I received all my holy sacraments in June as
Speaker 1: and and please, my dad was like, what do you
Speaker 1: mean You're leaving the Jewish religion. You're not gonna be
Speaker 1: a Jew anymore? What are you talking about? Already brought
Speaker 1: you a plot in the Jewish cemetery, you know, So
Speaker 1: that all was a whole other family debacle. And three
Speaker 1: months later, almost to the day, I got pregnant naturally
Speaker 1: with my now six year old son, Dawn of main Beta.
Speaker 1: You're after all of that after three rounds of I
Speaker 1: U I four rounds of IVF. Such a blessing, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, all I needed was faith faith. And sometimes
Speaker 1: I also think that from stories that have heard in
Speaker 1: the past, a lot of times it come. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: want things so bad and you're looking for it so hard,
Speaker 1: and that's when it won't come. Sometimes you just have
Speaker 1: to chill and let God do its job and let
Speaker 1: it happen naturally, and you know, and and just let
Speaker 1: it flow, because sometimes you think that you're ready and
Speaker 1: you're really not, and God is just testing you. He's
Speaker 1: testing your faith, he's testing your body, He's just testing you.
Speaker 1: I mean, for those that are religious, for those that
Speaker 1: have faith, for those that believe, and if for those
Speaker 1: that don't win them. Sometimes there's also lessons and it
Speaker 1: all happend on how you take it, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. It really depends on how you just view
Speaker 1: what has happened to you. But something that I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you about that is more than proved
Speaker 1: that your exeast them when you want it so bad
Speaker 1: after so much money, after so much effort, after so
Speaker 1: much emotional roller coaster, after all those things, bah Baio,
Speaker 1: gave you your baby better. Why do you think that
Speaker 1: this is such a taboo topic in the in the
Speaker 1: Latino community? Why is like in fertility such a thing?
Speaker 1: And I also think that's sometimes Latinos well La Mama
Speaker 1: sometimes can be very like insensitive. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: feel like, why aren't we having these conversations the same
Speaker 1: way that we teach our daughters about their periods, and
Speaker 1: we teach about them and all these things, why don't
Speaker 1: we also talk about if you get pregnant, right, if
Speaker 1: you get pregnant, these are the things that are going
Speaker 1: to happen to your body, and there's a possibility you
Speaker 1: might have a miscarriage. And this is what a miscarriage is,
Speaker 1: and this is what it feels like in this Why
Speaker 1: don't we have that conversation? Why is there so much
Speaker 1: ignorance in the Latino community when it comes to this. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I think it's up to people like you and me
Speaker 1: to change the dialogue and also let other women know
Speaker 1: that it's okay to talk about it. I was also
Speaker 1: taught you know not and it comes from a loving place.
Speaker 1: I think it's for our own protection, you know. I
Speaker 1: think our mothers and grandmothers and thea's they were thought
Speaker 1: to keep it under wraps because maybe it's something that
Speaker 1: would charnish an image or you know, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: what they were trying to protect. UM, But I've always
Speaker 1: been vocal about my life. I've never felt the need
Speaker 1: to not say something, you know, whether it's chicken pocks
Speaker 1: or infertility. You know what I'm saying because I want
Speaker 1: to hear stories and experiences from other people because that
Speaker 1: will help me with my journey. And so you know, UM,
Speaker 1: women that have been blessed with having children and being
Speaker 1: very fertile may not necessarily understand the struggle and the
Speaker 1: pain and the suffering and the and the everything that
Speaker 1: we've been talking about. So how do you feel, And
Speaker 1: I know this is very sensitive, but how do you
Speaker 1: feel about these laws that are that they're making for women?
Speaker 1: You know, those that are pro choice, pro life? Um,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about these laws? Should we have
Speaker 1: these laws? What what should be done? It shouldn't be done?
Speaker 1: What is your perspective on it? Okay, I'm angry, I'm angry.
Speaker 1: It angers me when there are lawmakers out there who
Speaker 1: think that they're in charge of our motherfucking body. These
Speaker 1: are our bodies, Okay. Now, for example, when I was
Speaker 1: going through the genetic abnormality, and I'm and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to understand what could happen through this pregnancy. The baby
Speaker 1: could make it, the baby could be stillborn, the baby
Speaker 1: could not develop um an ventricle of her heart and
Speaker 1: require open heart surgery upon birth. These are all the
Speaker 1: things that like, we have to educate ourselves now. If
Speaker 1: I didn't have the choice to terminate that pregnancy, I
Speaker 1: could have ended on any of those roads with a stillborn,
Speaker 1: losing it in the later on in the term, like
Speaker 1: third trimester, second trium, but also putting your life in jeopardy,
Speaker 1: because that's another thing. A lot of times when they
Speaker 1: talk about these laws, they talk about the babies and
Speaker 1: this and that, the feat is all these other things.
Speaker 1: But we must understand that a pregnancy is not just
Speaker 1: as light as people think. You know, you're putting your
Speaker 1: whole life on the on the line, like even you're
Speaker 1: giving birth to a child that may come with some
Speaker 1: type of difficulties and issues. There's so many women these
Speaker 1: days and these days that have died in those beds
Speaker 1: giving birth to their children, which obviously they shouldn't have to.
Speaker 1: But that being we have to think about, you know,
Speaker 1: the women behind these children. It's not just about the
Speaker 1: feat is or the child is also about the mother.
Speaker 1: A lot of these pregnancies can be very risky. And
Speaker 1: for example, my mother, my mother died for like a
Speaker 1: minute or two and they literally had to bring her
Speaker 1: back to life while she was giving birth to me. So,
Speaker 1: you know, not a lot of women get to make
Speaker 1: it back. And I do definitely agree that no one
Speaker 1: should be making law, like legal laws for women's body.
Speaker 1: Nonetheless men because bio so you guys don't have the
Speaker 1: rights to say what should happen and what shouldn't happen
Speaker 1: with women's life. And a lot of times were not
Speaker 1: put a hand bloke. I am in the Dominican Republic
Speaker 1: right now from one of my airbnbs, and it's illegal
Speaker 1: to you know, have abortions. So what do you see?
Speaker 1: Very often you see women giving birth to babies, wrapping
Speaker 1: them up in garbage bags and just literally throwing them
Speaker 1: in the garbage bag, throwing them in on gamples Somewhere,
Speaker 1: you find people of Besino finding them, finding babies and
Speaker 1: baby like in bags. You see a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: babies out in the streets. Babies have little kids three
Speaker 1: or four years old out in the street begging for money.
Speaker 1: They hung out on. Now they just abandoned them. So
Speaker 1: is this a better option because we know that while
Speaker 1: they're trying to somewhat fix an issue, they're also creating
Speaker 1: another one. Yeah, I just think we have to talk more.
Speaker 1: We have social media now, we have our own platforms.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how many followers you have. Everybody can make
Speaker 1: a difference in their own world, in their own right.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm trying to move the needle right now.
Speaker 1: Aside from show business, I'm doing some work with the
Speaker 1: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, better known as a COG.
Speaker 1: They also have a ton of resources on their website.
Speaker 1: If your listeners want to find out more UM, go
Speaker 1: to a COG dot org. I'm working UM with them
Speaker 1: to develop a perinatal anxiety toolkit for medical professionals and
Speaker 1: also for common Jose and jas like us because like
Speaker 1: to your points, there is a miseducation in some cases,
Speaker 1: no education at all about the things that affect us
Speaker 1: around pregnancy, not only pregnancy, perinatal anxiety, postpartum, okay, depression.
Speaker 1: There's so much research coming out of this report and
Speaker 1: study that it's mind blowing. Uh. You know, there are ways,
Speaker 1: there are early signs that our gynecologists and obstetricians can
Speaker 1: pinpoint to tell us whether or not we're more susceptible
Speaker 1: of perinatal anxiety and depression. You know, and this is
Speaker 1: even pre pregnancy, Like, these are the things that our
Speaker 1: doctors need to be equipped with. This is the information
Speaker 1: that we women need to be equipped and armed with
Speaker 1: because as women as Guerreras, nobody's gonna do it for us.
Speaker 1: They're just gonna tell us, don't talk about it, keep
Speaker 1: it to yourself, and we have to do the contrario.
Speaker 1: Get on your socials, join the organizations, you know, talk
Speaker 1: about the rights that we deserve, to your friends, your network,
Speaker 1: on podcast like don kra But it's our job to
Speaker 1: talk about it and to elevate the conversation. Meda I
Speaker 1: I am so grateful to have you today because this
Speaker 1: information is really gonna help a lot of women. A
Speaker 1: lot of women out here feel like they're by themselves.
Speaker 1: They don't know what to do. I've had so many
Speaker 1: people d m me through my Instagram account telling me
Speaker 1: about their miscarriages, and you know how tough has been
Speaker 1: for them to conceive. Um, I myself feel very blessed.
Speaker 1: Like I said before, I never thought I never saw
Speaker 1: myself as a single mother going through this process by myself.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what's happening with my body.
Speaker 1: My breasts are getting bigger, my nipples are getting bigger,
Speaker 1: you know, my stomach, I'm getting ligaments, you know, stretching,
Speaker 1: and my uterism and I'm like, mom, what is it?
Speaker 1: Does it? Because I have to you know, I have
Speaker 1: on one side, I feel the kicking and the pushing,
Speaker 1: and I feel on the other side, and it's just
Speaker 1: a lot going on in my body right now. It's
Speaker 1: my first time. If this is me now, I can't
Speaker 1: imagine once my tummy gets bigger, and I can't even
Speaker 1: imagine how it would have been if I hadn't lost
Speaker 1: my third baby. UM, I feel blessed. I feel honored.
Speaker 1: I am grateful that I at least have my mother
Speaker 1: to be in this process, in this journey with me,
Speaker 1: which a lot of women don't have. Have anybody to
Speaker 1: guide them. And I'm so grateful for women like yourself
Speaker 1: that are being open and you're sharing your story and
Speaker 1: you're empowering other women as well, and you're using your platform.
Speaker 1: You're using every single tool that you can to help
Speaker 1: other women. I want them to know where they can
Speaker 1: follow you, where they where can they get more information
Speaker 1: that they want to get in contact with you? Definitely,
Speaker 1: And I also respond to all the d m s.
Speaker 1: People reach out to me about my weight loss and
Speaker 1: how I did that and my story of infertility, and
Speaker 1: I'm an open book. You can reach me at Rachel
Speaker 1: La Loca or a c h E L La Loca
Speaker 1: and my podcast is Latinos Out Loud. We're on all
Speaker 1: the platforms and Matta was a guest on the podcast
Speaker 1: check out that episode. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1: Of course, thank you so much for coming through and
Speaker 1: sharing your story and your experience and your experiences. Um I,
Speaker 1: I definitely am more proud of you now that I
Speaker 1: know your story and how strong of a woman you
Speaker 1: are and throw us you are amazing and we need
Speaker 1: more women like you. They're willing to be open and
Speaker 1: share their stories. Um Guys, don't forget to rate us
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Speaker 1: If you know someone that is going through infertility or
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Speaker 1: This has been an important conversation UM and we need
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Speaker 1: to rate us five stars. We talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about everything, but then we also hate them important topics
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Speaker 1: girl for coming through today, and I'm so grateful for you.
Speaker 1: I wish you nothing but the best blessing to your babies, UM,
Speaker 1: their miracle babies, your rainbow babies, your husband for being
Speaker 1: a support system to to you, because we need more
Speaker 1: men like that that are gonna stand up and are
Speaker 1: really going to support their women through this journey, through
Speaker 1: this process. I hope that you continue to help more
Speaker 1: women like myself, and thank you so much for joining
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