Infertile AF: Infertility and Modern Family Building through ART - TopPodcast.com

View Top 200 Chart

Back to Rankings Page

Infertile AF: Infertility and Modern Family Building through ART — Alternative Health
Infertile AF: Infertility and Modern Family Building through ART

Unfiltered, honest, and deeply human—Infertile AF is the podcast that tells the real stories behind infertility and modern family building. Hosted by journalist, Fertility Rally co-founder, "Work of ART" books author and mom-of-two Ali Prato, who went through secondary infertility and IVF herself, the show dives into the messy, frustrating, painful, heartbreaking, absurd, and sometimes even funny realities of trying to have a baby—or pivoting in a different direction.

Each episode spotlights a different journey, path or topic, covering everything from miscarriages, egg freezing, sperm and egg donation, IUIs, IVF, endometriosis, and male factor infertility to adoption, surrogacy, genetic testing, termination for medical reasons, single parenting by choice, LGBTQ+ family building, living childless not by choice, depression, relationship struggles, financial stress, jealousy, PTSD, trauma and beyond.

In this safe, non-judgmental space, Ali explores all the outcomes: the joyful, the soul-crushing, and the stories still unfolding. Infertile AF is here to remind you that no matter where you are on your journey, you’re not alone.

Latest Episodes:

Jamie Jan 13, 2021

Show notes

Today's episode features a conversation with Jamie, an Atlanta-based realtor who is in a same sex marriage with Kathy, who is 30 years her senior. Jamie explains to Ali how she and Kathy met and fell in love when Jamie was in her early 20s, what happened when they started to try to have children, and where they are now. Jamie's story includes her diagnosis of PCOS, 10 IUIs with 2 or 3 different sperm donors, pursuing fostering and adoption, an ectopic pregnancy, a miscarriage around 7 weeks, and finally, a healthy baby girl, born in December 2020.

EPISODE SPONSOR:

Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome!

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

L'Oreal Jan 06, 2021

Show notes

Today, Ali is talking to L'Oreal, a Chicagoan with a journalism background who has written about her infertility in such publications as Self and Hello Giggles. L'Oreal talks about "being in the messy middle right now" —and how, even though she doesn't know how her story is going to turn out, she wants to share anyway. She discusses how isolating infertility can be, especially in the black community,

how having a "plan" rarely works out, her history of fibroids, how infertility has affected her marriage, and how IVF is a full-time job. L'Oreal also explains the shame that black women feel and their hesitation to speak about infertility, how the face of infertility is usually a "thin white woman," and how medical treatment is different, depending on what you look like.

EPISODE SPONSOR:

Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events.

Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support while navigating your journey. EVERYONE is welcome!

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Millie Dec 30, 2020

Show notes

On today's episode, Ali is talking to her hilarious friend Millie Brooks, an actress, an infertility warrior and advocate, and an all around stellar human. Millie talks about meeting her husband, what happened when they started to try to have kids, how an "unexplained infertility" diagnosis rocked their world, and how switching doctors and finding Dr. Aimeee, "The Egg Whisperer" changed the course of their treatment and their lives. Currently pregnant with their first child through IVF, Millie talks about the anxiety that comes along with pregnancy after infertility, how many more embryos they have on ice, and how the infertility community has helped her get through some of her lowest times.

EPISODE SPONSOR:

Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events.

Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support now at fertilityrally.com/join-now

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ellen Dec 23, 2020

Show notes

Today, Ali is talking to Ellen about addiction and infertility. Currently sober for almost four year, Ellen talks about how not being able to "drink like a normal person" became a problem, especially once she started navigating the rocky waters of infertility. Ellen talks about taking Clomid, the awkwardness of timed IUIs, getting black out drunk every night and how her husband hired a divorce lawyer, ready to end their relationship. She also talks about going to rehab, how the baby onesie she brought with her helped her get through her in-patient stay, and how, later, and thanks to IVF, she finally became pregnant with twins.

EPISODE SPONSOR:

FERTILITY RALLY, www.fertilityrally.com, providing 24/7 community, content and curated events for everyone going through infertility. Follow @fertilityrally for more

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ruth Corden Dec 16, 2020

Show notes

Today, Ali talks to Ruth Corden, "Finding the Funny" podcast host, infertility advocate and IVF warrior who is now living Childless Not By Choice. Ruth talks about her 8 year infertility journey, including miscarriage, loneliness, mental health, her siblings, (including her sister Ange, who she hosts the podcast with, and brother, Late Late Show James), and how she loves being an aunt to their children. Ruth also talks about feeling like a failure, what happened when she found out her husband had secretly been using drugs while they were going through it all and how infertility seeps into every single area of your life.

"Let's be honest, when I die, there isn't gonna be anybody at my funeral talking about how many kids I pushed out of my vagina," Ruth says. "They're gonna be talking about what kind of person I am and the way I treated people and how kind I was and what I did for my neighbor. Nobody's gonna stand around going, 'Oh god, well, she didn't have any kids, so she completely failed at life."

EPISODE SPONSOR:

CIRCLE SURROGACY

Circle Surrogacy provides exceptional knowledge and experience, fixed costs and financing, and the highest success rate in the business. Learn more at circlesurrogacy.com, and follow them on social media @circlesurrogacy

Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/infertile-af/donations

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Amanda W. Dec 09, 2020

Show notes

Today's guest is Amanda Warsavsky, whose infertility story includes her mother's infertility diagnosis (and a sister born through IVF), being blown off by a doctor at the age of 25 even though she knew there was something wrong, discovering she has PCOS, and the 7 failed IUIs she had before having her baby daughter. Amanda also talks about the devastating decision she made to terminate her pregnancy at 19 weeks because her baby son had a myriad of health issues. And now, how at almost 32 weeks pregnant, she is still not able to fully relax. Amanda is also talking about her new site, we-know.com, a place where people can go to ask questions and crowdsource advice on everything from travel to food to infertility.

Sponsor: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support now at fertilityrally.com/join-now

For more on We-Know, check out

beta.we-know.com/users/339

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Ariel Dec 02, 2020

Show notes

Today, Ali is talking to Ariel Taylor, aka @carried.with.love, about her 4th surrogacy journey, the surrogacy journeys that came before—and why she wanted to become a surrogate in the first place. Ariel talks about becoming a young mother, how she explains to her biological daughter that she’s carrying someone else’s baby, the tragic loss of one of her intended parents’ babies, and how surrogacy is different in Canada from the United States. She also talks about infertility as trauma, surrogacy advocacy and education, and common myths surrounding surrogates.

Sponsor: Fertility Rally, @fertilityrally, offering 24/7 Community, Content and Curated Events. Give yourself or a fellow infertility warrior the gift of support now at fertilityrally.com/join-now

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Marilyn Nov 25, 2020

Show notes

On today's episode, Ali talks to Marilyn B. Gomez about her six-year-long journey to motherhood, which lasted from 2009 to 2015. Marilyn, who hosts the Mama Vida Podcast @mamavidapodcast and makes cool infertility tees, hats, jewelry and more at @infertiletees, discusses her high points and low points, including how much holidays suck while #ttc; the guilt she felt about whether genetic testing means "playing god;" how therapy and visualization exercises helped her cope; how grieving differently from her husband drove them apart; and how, after she finally got pregnant with her daughter, Mila, she experienced the deep anxiety of pregnancy after infertility. Ali and Marilyn also talk about the difficult decision some people have to make when they've got more embryos on ice.

SPONSORS:

Today’s episode is sponsored by FERTILITY RALLY—Community, Content and Curated Events for anyone experiencing the pain of infertility or building their modern families at www.fertilityrally.com

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

BONUS Episode: Ali, Abbe and Sophie Talk About THAT Lena Dunham Article Nov 23, 2020

Show notes

Last week, Lena Dunham released an article in Harper's called, "False Labor: Giving Up on Motherhood" -- and it created a shitstorm in the infertility community, to say the least. Today, Ali and her friends Abbe and Sophie, infertility warrior-advocates and co-founders of InCircle Fertility, unpack the article that has the whole community talking.

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Broken Brown Egg founder and infertility warrior Regina Townsend Nov 18, 2020

Show notes

Today, Ali is talking to her good friend Regina Townsend, a librarian, an infertility warrior and the founder of Broken Brown Egg, a blog she started in 2009 was because she wanted to break silence around infertility and women of color. Today, Broken Brown Egg has grown exponentially, existing to "empower, inform, and advocate for those questioning or experiencing the impact of infertility, with an emphasis on the Black experience of it." As Regina always says, Infertility is bigger than babies—and today we're talking about all of it, including how, after years of TTC and heartbreak, including a disrupted adoption and a lot of other things, Regina and her husband Jahbari welcomed their gorgeous son, Judah.We also talk about how Target can be a real asshole, why, when you don't end up in jail, you've had a good day, and how growing up in the public schools of Chicago shaped our versions of being women and our knowledge of our reproductive systems.

Today’s episode is sponsored by FERTILITY RALLY—Community, Content and Curated Events at www.fertilityrally.com

Also check out thebrokenbrownegg.org for more

Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Related Podcasts