The Egg Whisperer Show

I'm excited to be joined by Dr. Kate White on today's Egg Whisperer Show podcast! As a practicing gynecologist, she teaches women how to better understand their bodies. She helps women be unafraid of seeing the doctor, and arms them with questions to ask. Dr. Kate is the Vice-Chair of Academics and the director of the Fellowship in Complex Family Planning at Boston Medical Center, and an associate professor of OB/GYN at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is the author of "Your Guide to Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss: hope and healing when you're no longer expecting." I'm excited to talk to her about how fertility patients can get the information they need to make the best choices for themselves and their lives so that they can grow their families. Listen on Dr. Aimee's website   You can find Dr. Kate White's website by clicking here.   Would you like to learn more about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom.   Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

I'm so excited to be interviewing Samantha Harris on The Egg Whisperer Show podcast. Samantha is an Emmy-winning TV host, and the author of the bestselling book Your Healthiest Healthy: 8 Ways to Take Control, Help Prevent and Fight Cancer, and Live a Longer, Cleaner, Happier Life. She is also a certified health coach and trainer, cancer survivor and thriver. She is a proud mom of two, and an unstoppable optimist dedicated to being your cheerleader and guide toward your healthiest healthy life! You may know her from ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and Entertainment Tonight. She is also a national ambassador for both Susan G. Komen and the American Cancer Society.  She is now empowering women to ignite sustainable lifestyle changes with her just launched wellness membership group called Your Healthiest Healthy: Community. I am thrilled to have her on the show. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website You can find Samantha's website by clicking here. Would you like to learn more about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Brittany Hawkins is the co-founder and CEO of ELANZA Wellness, a company focused on fertility coaching. I'm really excited about the work that ELANZA is doing, and how her coaches are supporting fertility patients. She hopes to foster a safe and structured way for people to feel less stress so they can move forward intentionally in their personal lives. She is also the co-author of the book "Everything Egg Freezing: The Essential Step by Step Guide to Doing it Right." This book is a valuable one-stop, science-based guide for people. ⁠Brittany froze her eggs in her 30s, and after meeting Catherine Hendy, they decided to set out to make the experience of being a fertility patient better by starting their company. You can find ELANZA Wellness here: https://www.elanzawellness.com/fertilitycoaching Would you like to learn more about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, June 6, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom.   Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips!  Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates  Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

On today's Egg Whisperer Show podcast, I'm sharing an interview by MaryJane Carnahan of "The Biggest Ask." She hosted me on Instagram Live, and we talked all about surrogacy. In this interview, we talk about how using a gestational carrier or surrogate has become more common in the last few years and the kinds of patients that should consider using a surrogate. We also discuss how one becomes a gestational carrier, and what the path to becoming one looks like, and how to work with an agency if you are considering one. And, no conversation about surrogacy would be complete without also sharing the psychological considerations of using a gestational carrier, for both the surrogate and for the intended parents.  Because the discussion around fertility and treatment has also become more normalized, the use of a gestational carrier has become more accepted in the last decade as well, which has opened up doors for many hopeful parents. I'm grateful for the work that MJ is doing, and so appreciative to have been included on her Live series.    You can find MJ and The Biggest Ask on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebiggestask/   Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips!   Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates   Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

As a follow up to yesterday’s interview in Episode 166 about OHSS (Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome)  with Dr. Nicole Barker, I invited her back to answer your fertility questions. In this conversation we cover your questions including:  What is a tilted uterus Fresh vs frozen transfer What to do about low egg reserve Protocols for women with endometriosis Genetic testing of embryos Recommendations around Clomid And more Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

As part of the IVF cycle, patients are given hormones which stimulates the ovaries to allow all the possible follicles and eggs to grow. The good news is that this often allows us to capture as many healthy eggs as possible in one cycle, giving a patient a better chance at a healthy embryo. One possible side effect is Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome. Dr. Nichole Barker of Seattle Reproductive Medicine joins me on the podcast today to talk all about OHSS. What do you need to know before IVF? What are the symptoms of OHSS? What’s the protocol for a patient (and her doctor) should she have symptoms?⠀ Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Would you like to learn more about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, May 23, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom.   Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips!   Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates   Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Tiffany Stankewicz is an Endometrial Specialist and Senior Scientific Advisor at Igenomix. I'm so excited to have her on to explain the ERA, EMMA, and ALICE tests, collectively known as the EndomeTRIO test. Tiffany has over 10 years of clinical laboratory experience as an embryologist and is certified by the American Board of Bioanalysts (ABB) as a Technical Supervisor (TS) in both Embryology and Andrology. The health of the endometrium plays an important role in providing a welcoming environment for embryo implantation and growth. During this informative discussion, we talk about endometrial health, endometrial receptivity, endometrial microbiome, pathogenic bacterium, and recurrent pregnancy loss. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

Dr. Geoffrey Sher is back, and we are going to be covering a very important topic: why do you need to do PGT testing if you’re doing IVF (or do you?) Dr. Sher is the co-founder of Sher Fertility Solutions (SFS) and internationally renowned expert in the field of ART (Assisted Reproductive Technology) and has been influential in the births of over 17,000 IVF babies.  Around 2005, Dr. Sher's team published the first paper that showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you were able to fully karyotype the embryo cells  that a euploid embryo would have an excellent chance. Today there is hardly an IVF program in the world that is not doing PGS/PGT-A to assess embryo viability. Today, we are discussing if PGT is needed for all IVF cycles, the role DOR plays in assessing if PGT is useful, and other maternal chromosomal and genetic abnormalities that may mean you'd want to consider PGT. Plus, he's addressing the concern that some patients have around the possibility that PGT may harm an embryo (short answer: if done correctly it does not). Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website. Would you like to learn more about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, May 23, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom.   Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips!   Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates   Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

For a long time women have been blamed for every fertility issue known to humanity. So does sperm really matter? Dr. Aimee looks at the role sperm and male fertility plays when you are trying to conceive. Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's site. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips! Join Egg Whisperer School Checkout the podcast Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.

What do you need to know before IVF? In this episode, I'm sharing everything you need to know, including: The secrets of IVF stimulation The medications you might take Why you might take birth control pills during IVF The kinds of needles that are used for IVF injections The timeline for IVF (looking at an actual calendar)  Read the full show notes on Dr. Aimee's website   Do you have questions about IVF?Click here to join Dr. Aimee for The IVF Class. The next live class call is on Monday, May 16, 2022 at 4pm PST, where Dr. Aimee will explain IVF and there will be time to ask her your questions live on Zoom.   Resources   Planting the Seeds of Pregnancy: An Integrative Approach to Fertility Care   Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more fertility tips!   Subscribe to the newsletter to get updates   Dr. Aimee Eyvazzadeh is one of America’s most well known fertility doctors. Her success rate at baby-making is what gives future parents hope when all hope is lost. She pioneered the TUSHY Method and BALLS Method to decrease your time to pregnancy. Learn more about the TUSHY Method and find a wealth of fertility resources at www.draimee.org.