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40 - Jody Vassallo: Babies Aren't Made By Wishing.
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Today Jody speaks about her personal failed fertility journey.
After realising in her mid-forties that she may not meet the man of her dreams and have a family she embarked on a solo mission to have a child.
She chose to start with sperm donorship. Approaching male friends first to see if they may be open to donation, after coming to a dead end there she moved onto the internet and interviewed many doctors before finding an anaesthetist who agreed to help her. Failing there she ended up in a fertility clinic where she tried IUI then IVF.
Jody talks vulnerably about how difficult she found the whole IVF process and the surprise she felt about the effects the hormones had on her relationship with her body.
After several years of failed attempts Jody came to the realisation that becoming a mother would not be a reality for her this time around. She reveals how she dealt with the grief and isolation she experienced following this.
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