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IVF Out Loud

IVF Out Loud

Written by: Alison Wallace
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I craved community in my wildly personal journey to parenthood. Humans were not designed to go through this in secret, nor should fertility be a deep dark shameful experience most of us feel like it is as we trudge through our Instagram feeds and evites full of happy baby pictures and shower invitations.

IFV Out Loud is a collection of stories and discussions I wish had been available to me. The funny, heartbreaking and embarrassing. I believe that the more we talk about reproductive journeys the healthier and happier families we will have. If you are going through this or know someone who is, I hope that my experience provides you with a safe place to laugh and maybe start a conversation.

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Episodes
  • Unicorns and other mythical creatures

    Unicorns and other mythical creatures
    Jun 7 2024

    Welcome to IVF Out Loud, I’m Alison and I’m sharing the humorous and heartbreaking conversations and stories from my infertility journey. Infertility is a deeply personal journey, but no one should journey alone and by speaking about my family’s experience I hope I can provide someone with a laugh, a cry and a community. I am not a medical professional, just a woman who’s been there. This podcast is not a substitute for a conversation with your medical professional.


    In this episode I'll discuss an unexpected discovery in our IVF Journey. Spoiler alert, I’m a unicorn.


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    10 mins
  • IVF Out Loud Introduction

    IVF Out Loud Introduction
    Mar 21 2024

    Welcome to my first podcast of IVF Out Loud. I’m Alison. My partner and I are building our family using IFV. My goal with this platform is to share my experience with infertility, the conversations I wish I had known how to have, some of the more comical moments of our 9 year journey and really just create a community. I know that I felt more than a little bit crazy and isolated on over our decade long journey.


    I will share stories about our journey and include humor whenever possible. I will not spend any time on injections or medication. When we started this process, I was so frustrated by all the videos and talk around how the hormones and injections. Honestly, for me I felt uneven, unsettled and ‘crazy’ before I even started medication. I felt angry and emotional as the depth of the process unfolded. I wanted to hear stories of people that felt like I did, not someone who was hyperventilating over giving themselves a shot. I’m not minimizing how people feel, but the reality for me was I felt big feelings long before we even got to our IVF specialist. Impatience, frustration, anger, sadness, and so many more emotions that I directed at myself, my husband, and anyone around me. I wanted to create a pod cast about those stories, there are plenty of voices speaking about the physical discomfort, hormones ect. Movies, social media, and on and on. I want to fill a void that I felt.


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    16 mins
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