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The Long Road to Surrender: Dr. Rachel Welbel's Fertility Journey
Dr. Rachel Welbel is a PM&R physician, a Love & Science community member, and today she's four weeks postpartum with a daughter she wasn't sure she'd ever have. Her journey spans three years, multiple retrievals, canceled cycles, a heartbreaking loss at 16 weeks, failed transfers, a chemical pregnancy, and diagnoses that came in layers — each one another thing to absorb and move through.
What brought her through wasn't one breakthrough moment. It was slow, quiet, hard-earned surrender.
In this episode:
The loss that started it all — and the decision no one prepares you for
Why IVF felt like…
The skinny
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