What Happened when She advocated her way out of infertility? Molly's Pregnancy Story, Part I

When she was 18, a doctor told her that getting pregnant would be challenging, without offering any suggestions about how to improve her odds. She worked for ten years to prove this doctor wrong--and when she was on the brink of giving up, it happened--she got pregnant.

 In today's episode my guest offers advice about what she would've done differently when pursuing the health issue that likely contributed to her trouble with fertility, she shares the dramatic story of finding out she was ,in fact pregnant after 10 years of trying, and suggests ways of thinking about medical advice that may alter how you take hard information in. What follows is the first part of our conversation.

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