'I Thought God Would Reward Me With Children': A Conversation on Navigating Infertility & IVF Ep 11

How do we handle trying for a baby but coming face-to-face with our biology is letting us down? As women, we know the challenges that arise when we’re struggling to conceive and we’re hyper focused on our body clock that can often feel like a ticking time bomb.

In the midst of this all, how do we make sure that this doesn’t consume us and make us so far removed from our day-to-day joy and purpose? It’s understandable to be upset and frustrated when our timeline isn’t working out how we wanted it to. Watch as our host from Team Magnify, Rachel, is joined by guests Alexandra Calder and Abi McIlrath as they chat about: Navigating Infertility, Exploring IVF & Finding Identity Outside of Motherhood.

00:00 Intro
15:57 Female identity outside of motherhood
28:34 Joy and sorrow in others’ fertility journeys
42:24 Overcoming the shame around IVF
48:47 The joy of getting pregnant

ALEXANDRA CALDER is a TV producer who works as a freelancer across all the major British TV channels.

ABI MCILRATH works in production for a church in London and previously lived and worked in Kuala Lumpur.

This episode of The Magnify Conversations was produced by Magnify and filmed and edited by Method Films.

Follow our guests on Instagram:
Alexandra Calder: @alexandra_calder
Abi McIlrath: @abimcilrath

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Rachel Calland @rachelcalland

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