Army Spouse Julie's Birth Story: Navigating infertility as a military member, plus working to decrease barriers to care
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This week is National Infertility Awareness week. In today’s episode I’m speaking with Julie, an Army spouse who shares her experience navigating infertility, and then also one birth story. She also talks about her work advocating for TRICARE members to have insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and her experience founding a nonprofit called Building military Families Network to assist and support the military community with family building challenges. You can learn more about that wor...
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