This is a show that shares true experiences of pregnancy to help shift the common cultural narrative away from the glossy depictions of this enormous transition to a more realistic one.  It also celebrates the incredible resilience and strength it takes to create another person and deliver them into the world. I’m your host, Paulette Kamenecka. I’m a writer and an economist and the mother of two girls. In this episode you’ll hear more advice about things to think about on your fertility/ivf/pregnancy journey–knowledge that just might make the often challenging process of fertility a little easier to bear and maybe also (fingers crossed) to keep hold of a bit of your sanity, from the former writer who covered the “fertility beat”, before such a thing existed, for the New York Times. This is part two of our conversation. We'll pick up where we left off: talking about how all consuming the IVF procedure is.

For more extended show notes with links to the research mentioned in the show, see: http://warstoriesfromthewomb.com/

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