Confessions of a Slow Cooker : A Fertility Podcast

Episode 19: From Miracle To Miscarriage To Cancer of the Milk Duct with Lindsey Garcia

Not everyone has difficult story from the outset. Lindsey Garcia can attest. She and her husband decided to try for a baby and BAM, she was pregnant the next month! Literally one and done. A few years after that, it took a mere 3 months of trying for son number two. But as it tends to do, life threw the Garcias for a loop when a vasectomy that didn't take led to a third pregnancy, then a devastating miscarriage...and two months later, a breast cancer diagnosis. Listen to Lindsey tell all the things including her terrifying bout with postpartum after the second birth, the unexpected loss of her mother-in-law, and of course, the lack of time to grieve the loss of her miracle baby when she had to start the fight of her life post cancer diagnosis. To get in touch with Lindsey: https://www.instagram.com/lindseyhgarcia/ [https://www.instagram.com/lindseyhgarcia/] To get in touch with Ashlyne: https://www.instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/ [https://www.instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/] Email: ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com [ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com] https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com [https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com]

Episode 18: You're Not Broken & You Can Get Better with Dr. Jeffrey Brown

If you've been on the hamster wheel of trying to get pregnant only to hit dead end after dead end with your own health? It can be so defeating and can cause you to stop believing 1. you'll ever be a parent and/or 2. you'll ever get any better. Dr. Jeffrey Brown hopes you jump off of that spinning wheel and schedule an appointment with someone like him: a doctor of osteopathy specializing in fertility (specifically PCOS, endometriosis, hormones, etc.). Our bodies are one unit, and even though every organ and system might have a different function, they all affect each other and throw the whole thing out of whack. So instead of zooming it, he zooms out in search of the root cause (which could also be trauma from a long time ago) and ways to bring everything back to a flow state. For more from Dr. Jeffrey Brown:   - Webinar: https://hormonehealthwithdrbrown.com/webinar [https://hormonehealthwithdrbrown.com/webinar]   - Free E-book (for listeners dealing with chronic pelvic pain): https://hormonehealthwithdrbrown.com/free-ebook [https://hormonehealthwithdrbrown.com/free-ebook]   - Website: https://hormonehealthwithdrbrown.com [https://hormonehealthwithdrbrown.com] To get in touch with Ashlyne: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/ [https://www.instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/] Email: ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com [ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com] Website: https//confessionsofaslowcooker.com [http://confessionsofaslowcooker.com]

Episode 17: The Pursuit of IVF Happiness with Sarah Herron & Alex Leddy

Sarah Herron is no stranger to being vulnerable. Not in front of a worldwide TV audience on The Bachelor as the first contestant with a visible disability (and subsequently on Bachelor In Paradise), not through her vast social media presence, not in building her non-profit SheLift, and certainly not in her pursuit to be a mother via IVF. Her relentlessness is inspiring, and alongside Alex Leddy (who is both Ashlyne and Sarah's acupuncturist), Sarah recounts her 4 egg retrievals, 5 transfers, 2 positives (with one devastating loss of her son). Around her twin daughters' second birthdays, there is cause for celebration of all she went through to get here. And all there is left to accomplish. To get in touch with Sarah: https://www.instagram.com/sarahherron/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/sarahherron/?hl=en] http://shelift.org [http://shelift.org] To get in touch with Ashlyne: https://www.instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/?hl=en [https://www.instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/?hl=en] https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com [https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com] email: ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com [ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com] To get in touch with Alex: http://www.alexleddyacupuncture.com/staff/ [http://www.alexleddyacupuncture.com/staff/]

Episode 16: Risky Business: Colleagues In IVF with Ashley Ernst

I've heard of women wanting to get pregnant at the same time as their friends (or sisters), but I'm not sure that applies to co-workers going through IVF. The road to starting IVF can be fraught on its own. The process during IVF is rarely straightforward and instead full of unexpected twists and turns and setbacks. So imagine going through it alongside someone you work with every single day. Host Ashlyne Blue and former colleague Ashley Ernst experienced this for multiple years. Listen as they talk about their respective journeys and the inevitable comparisons drawn in terms of eggs retrieved, embryos obtained, and the timing of getting pregnant (or not). To get in touch with Ashley Ernst (especially if you experience uterine lining issues!): https://www.instagram.com/ashleyc.ernst/ [https://www.instagram.com/ashleyc.ernst/] To get in touch with Ashlyne: https://instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/ [https://instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/] https://instagram.com/confessionsofaslowcooker/ [https://instagram.com/confessionsofaslowcooker/] ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com [ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com] https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com [https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com]

Episode 15: The Partner's Point of View with Marcus Blue

We all know it takes two to tango...or whatever. And while not everyone has or wants a partner to become a parent, a lot of the time, there is one. So, what about them in all of this? Ashlyne's husband Marcus Blue has no problem being candid about his experience with fertility struggles and ultimately the IVF process–but like most guys, that wasn't always the case. This episode is a big one, not because Marcus says anything so monumental or different than any other IVF parent might say, but just that he's speaking at all on a public forum. We usually only hear from the women IF we hear from them. It's a raw episode, but it's also pretty funny at times. Don't be afraid to share this one with the partners out there. It takes all of us! To reach out to Marcus: Instagram - https://instagram.com/mjblu/ [https://instagram.com/mjblu] To get in touch with Ashlyne: https://instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/ [https://instagram.com/ashlynehuffblue/] https://instagram.com/confessionsofaslowcooker/ [https://instagram.com/confessionsofaslowcooker/] ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com [ashlyne@confessionsofaslowcooker.com] https://confessionsofaslowcooker.com