Speaker 1: I know my fertility journey has been something that I
Speaker 1: have spoken about quite a few times, particularly over this year,
Speaker 1: but for me, it's been quite spread out over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. It started probably two years ago
Speaker 1: when I did my first egg freezing cycle. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I am on my third cycle at the moment, so
Speaker 1: I am thirty six years old for those that are
Speaker 1: playing at home, and I have quite low fertility, and
Speaker 1: it's something that I never thought I would have because
Speaker 1: as women, you know, you grow up thinking, don't feel
Speaker 1: pregnantn't fall pregnant, do't fore pregnant, because that's what you're taught.
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden the day comes where
Speaker 1: you're like, time to feel pregnant and you can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know, brit As well, like you recently
Speaker 2: did your second round of egg freezing and the results
Speaker 2: weren't what you were hoping for and you were so
Speaker 2: vulnerable and sharing that with everyone.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, so I did my second round only two
Speaker 1: months ago, now, I think, and you go through weeks
Speaker 1: of injections and hormone injections and I ended up with nothing.
Speaker 3: And that was the slap in the face.
Speaker 1: That was where I was like, oh my god, like,
Speaker 1: even with the help of science, and you've just paid
Speaker 1: all this money. And I know it's not about money,
Speaker 1: but that's what you think, right, And that's what the
Speaker 1: every day person thinks.
Speaker 3: I've just paid so much money.
Speaker 1: I have just put my body through hell for weeks,
Speaker 1: I've had an operation, I've had all of science's help
Speaker 1: to get what I.
Speaker 3: Need and I didn't get anything.
Speaker 1: And that was like, holy smokes, this is serious, you know,
Speaker 1: because the last year or so, I've always said it,
Speaker 1: and I've always joked about, oh, I've got my fertility
Speaker 1: is not great, you know, like.
Speaker 3: It's probably going to be hard for me.
Speaker 1: But then when you get zero, you're like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is actually really serious. This is not a This is
Speaker 1: not a my fertility is low. This is a far
Speaker 1: out How am I ever going to have a.
Speaker 2: Britt You were saying you didn't want to keep talking
Speaker 2: about it, but your reasoning for not wanting to continue
Speaker 2: talking about it was more so because you were like,
Speaker 2: surely people are sick of hearing from it, Like, surely
Speaker 2: people are sick.
Speaker 4: Of hearing my story.
Speaker 2: And I know for you, because you live it and
Speaker 2: you're in it, it feels like it's every single day.
Speaker 4: But I can't tell you how much.
Speaker 2: Of a comfort and how much it helps other women
Speaker 2: out there to hear someone speaking about what it is
Speaker 2: that they're going through, because there's nothing harder than when
Speaker 2: you are trying to for pregnant or you are in
Speaker 2: that process yourself than just seeing happy pregnancy announcements and
Speaker 2: never hearing about all of the work that can go
Speaker 2: into finally getting pregnant for some people. And do you
Speaker 2: know what in saying that, like, we've had people calling
Speaker 2: through while you've been talking about this, Brett.
Speaker 4: We've got Emma, Emma on the line.
Speaker 1: Hi, Emma, Hi, guys, Hi Emma, Hi, welcome to big up.
Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting it not to call.
Speaker 5: Thank you, No, I was just calling to say a
Speaker 5: big thank you to you, Britt for putting it out there,
Speaker 5: because it's a pretty isolating situation going through IVF and
Speaker 5: it's a scary topic that people don't really want to
Speaker 5: talk about it or it's a bit too icky and
Speaker 5: uncomfortable for them, so they shy away from it.
Speaker 4: Are you going through it? Have you frozen?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 4: Where are you at your journey?
Speaker 5: So he did ovulation induction for and surgeries and all
Speaker 5: kinds of fun things for nearly three years.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 5: And then I do have a little one night to
Speaker 5: go through a lot for him as well. But we
Speaker 5: started IVF in October because I have indimit traces and
Speaker 5: polosis decovaries and adam iiosis, you name it. I've got
Speaker 5: the trifector. But as you were going through your process,
Speaker 5: I was sort of going through mine, and I started
Speaker 5: all the needles and I had to back on your
Speaker 5: clips because I couldn't like inject them properly.
Speaker 3: They wouldn't go in.
Speaker 5: I was like, felt like I was stabbing myself with
Speaker 5: a dart.
Speaker 4: Oh, I mean I still do.
Speaker 3: I did that today.
Speaker 4: I was like, get in.
Speaker 3: I was like, it wouldn't. I couldn't break the skin.
Speaker 2: Also, you wouldn't think of this like, I mean even
Speaker 2: not just from like an emotional support perspective, but from
Speaker 2: an actual physicality of like how do you do it?
Speaker 4: I think people underestimate how terrifying it might.
Speaker 2: Be to go home and have to inject yourself and
Speaker 2: do all the hormone stuff that goes along with the fastility.
Speaker 5: Yeah. And I had to psy like myself up on
Speaker 5: that because my husband isn't like he's a placeman, so
Speaker 5: he's not home to help in the eye. To really
Speaker 5: work myself up to do that first needle and then
Speaker 5: to have trouble actually breaking the skin was like, I
Speaker 5: don't know what to do.
Speaker 3: So then I remembered Britad had that.
Speaker 5: Problem, So I'll go watch brit restabber. So how do
Speaker 5: I do this? Move back on that?
Speaker 2: How are the results for you now in terms of
Speaker 2: where your headed with your fertility?
Speaker 5: So they were touching go for a while. Their doctors
Speaker 5: were not happy with my response. I had lots, but
Speaker 5: they were little, so they were going to cancel my cycle.
Speaker 5: Then they changed their mind and they were like, yes, we'll.
Speaker 4: Keep doing it.
Speaker 5: So I got four eggs in the end who were
Speaker 5: Bible like mature. Yeah, so I was quite deflated by that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and I'm turning thirty five in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 5: which is apparently ancient in the fertility.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, welcome to the geriatric world. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: the word they used, Jerry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it sounds like you at least, Yeah, it
Speaker 1: sounds like you at least got the one, which it's
Speaker 1: I say, at least, and it's not it's not amazing,
Speaker 1: but one is One is something to at least hold
Speaker 1: on to, and it's better than nothing.
Speaker 5: And I get my result today, So I have one
Speaker 5: put back in and I've been waiting and being that
Speaker 5: impatient person testing when I'm not meant to test.
Speaker 3: I get good results in a few hours.
Speaker 2: Emma, we are absolutely rooting for you. And also, like
Speaker 2: I think, keep sharing because as much as much as
Speaker 2: you think that it's an overshare, and as much as
Speaker 2: you might think that you are giving so much of yourself,
Speaker 2: it really does.
Speaker 4: These conversations really do help women.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I really am Just to tie up my update,
Speaker 1: I really am very optimistic about my results this time
Speaker 1: because my doctor has purposely put me on a much
Speaker 1: high doise of hormones, which which makes for a pretty
Speaker 1: chaotic couple of weeks for me, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable. But I'm optimistic that because that is so high,
Speaker 1: that I'm going to have a better outcome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I went optimistic for you too, Emma. Thanks so much,
Speaker 2: and thank you