74: Female and Male Infertility Issues with Jill Berkbuegler-Lembke

Female Voices: Life and Loss · Jan 19, 2022 · 44m

Jill said that she knew intuitively from a very young age that she would have to adopt or would have trouble having her own children and she was correct. She shared that at age 29 is when she and her husband began to focus on having a family. It was discovered that they had both female and male infertility issues so IUI was the best option to start with. Her fertility doctor would only do 5 rounds of IUI before switching to IVF. Nothing happened the first 3 rounds but on round 4 she had a chemical pregnancy which was devastating to her. She said I felt like I was pregnant

She said we were…