A "Hold Your Breath" Pregnancy

Perry & Sydney went from being told to stop their medications (i.e.: their pregnancy was over)… to holding their miracle daughter. Their journey in between, virtually the whole time, was filled with anxiety. Hear how deeply they were shaped by infertility, and learn from what they did as they struggled to find contentment and a sense of certainty, in this episode of The Embryo Adoption Podcast. (time stamps below)

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:56 Sydney remembers when she was told to stop taking her medications after her frozen embryo transfer (FET), then took a pregnancy test anyway

5:30 What their conversations with the NEDC and its medical partners were like during the time of waiting to see if a pregnancy would be established

7:45 What it was like for Perry to play a support role during this ‘holding our breaths’ situation

11:33 How the rest of the pregnancy went once it was firmly established

16:30 The guilt Sydney felt while lamenting her difficult pregnancy

18:25 What the moment was like when Marlee was born

22:30 What parenting has actually been like compared to what Perry & Sydney expected

26:20 What the relationship with their donor family has been like

27:45 How infertility has changed them

33:20 How God formed Marlee before Perry & Sydney even met

35:45 Is going back to the complicated emotions of infertility helpful or unhelpful?