082. Jen lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband Dave and their three children: Alli, her 11 year-old daughter, Taylor, her 8 year old daughter, Dylan, her 8 month old son. Jen had her first two daughters at 29 and 33. She never felt her family was complete and wanted a third. After a year of trying, she looked at fertility treatment and was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. Her husband wasn’t willing to go use fertility treatment. It wouldn’t be until five years of trying...

081. This is the second part of a two-part series where three ladies plus myself discuss the IVF process. Listen to Part I where we discuss our overall experiences. I’m pregnant in the second trimester at 43 with donor egg conception. We have returning guest from episode 50, Sonia. Sonia was pregnant at 44 with donor egg conception, also. Nisha is a returning guest from episode 56. She was pregnant at 43 with her first transfer of one embryo that led to her twin girls. Adriana is our...

080. We have three guests on to discuss IVF. The goal of this show is to share our experiences, so you can be confident if IVF is right for you. We have returning guest, Sonia from episode 50. Sonia had a six-year IVF journey to her pregnancy at 44 with her daughter using donor eggs. Nisha is a returning guest from episode 56. Nisha had a two-year IVF journey to her pregnancy at 43 with her first transfer of one embryo that led to twin girls. Adriana is a first-time guest on her seventh year...

079. On episode 79, Bridget is working mom living in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and her four ½ month old son. Bridget started dating her now husband when she was 38, and a month into their relationship found out she was pregnant. She was a little freaked out. Neither one of them had said ‘I love you’ yet, so she questioned how she was going to have a baby with him. Join us as Bridget shares her pregnancy struggles to almost starting the IVF process before she got naturally...

078. Melodie had waited a long time to meet someone but had never really wanted children, even in her thirties. She met her partner at 41 and started having an intense desire to have a child with him. She and her partner talked about having a baby. She was pregnant the first month they tried but lost it. She was pregnant two cycles afterwards and lost that one, too. She was depressed about the two losses, and then her partner told her he didn’t want a baby. She moved out, but they still...

077. Shirley is a mother of three in California who was pregnant at 20, 47 and 49. At 20, she lived with her parents, and her mother was very abusive. It was very traumatic how she got pregnant and moved out immediately. Her 32-year-old son saved her life. Shirley started dating her wife 12 years ago, and they talked about starting a family five years into their relationship. The doctor said her wife’s egg reserve at 36 was very low. Shirley told the clinic she planned to carry the baby using...

076. Sarah is a personal trainer living in Miami, Florida with her husband of twenty years and their three-month-old daughter. She wasn’t ready to have kids after she married at 28. At 38, Sarah thought about having a baby at the same time as her best friend, and questioned why she was so afraid of having a baby. After a year of trying, she saw a fertility doctor because she hadn’t gotten pregnant and her cycles were long and irregular. They told her she was ovulating too late in her cycle...

075. Tara grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts. She moved away to attend college at Northeastern in Boston. She moved out to Denver, Colorado almost 11 years ago when she was looking for a job after she completed her MBA. From an early age, Tara assumed she was going to have issues having children. Her mother and grandmother both went into menopause in their early 40’s. Every doctor told her she had a less than 10 % chance of conceiving naturally, so she didn’t see a reason to be on...

074. Claire is a mom of three from the UK. When her third child arrived at 43, she had three children under the age of four. Her third child is two years old during the recording of the show. When she was single, she didn’t know if she wanted kids, but she thinks it was meeting the right person that sparked that desire. Claire says it was an accident she got pregnant at 39, her pregnancy at 41 was planned, but at 43, she didn’t want to believe it even though all of the signs were there. Join...

073. Laura lives in Boston with her husband and their two children. In her mid 20's, all of her friends married, the following year she set  out to make it a special for her. She decided to train for a marathon. It changed everything in her life. She met her husband in her mid 30’s while training for the Boston Marathon. They married when she was 40 and wanted to start planning a family right away. Laura thought it might be hard to get pregnant even though people around her assumed it would...

072. Kezia never thought she would get married until she met James on Instagram. She immigrated from Canada with her daughter and their cats in 2021 to a small town in Pennsylvania. She and James had a courthouse wedding later that year. They knew they wanted to have a child together, and she was pregnant quickly. She lost it in the first trimester on her 40th birthday but never had a follow-up appointment. Her cycle didn’t return and her doctor suggested she was perimenopause. Join us as...

071. Orla was told by three doctors that she couldn’t have children. In December 2018, she had surgery for endometriosis and a septum uterus. The doctor surgically divided the septum which she was told would reduce the risk of miscarriage from 40% to 25%. Afterwards, her doctor said, “you have the tiniest ovaries I’ve ever seen. It would be a miracle if you released an egg.” After healing from surgery, she was pregnant on the first try. She believes it was because of that surgery she was able...

070. Are you about to embark on the donor egg journey? We have four women on the show who have been through it to discuss your questions . We have returning guest Jake, from episode 45 sharing her journey with her first child when she was pregnant at 51. She used a known donor, her niece, Savanah who is also on to share her experience as an egg donor. Jake’s daughter is seven years old. Janice, from episode 68 shares her journey with her sixth child when she was pregnant at 46. Her baby was...

069. Newly single Carmen is a functional nutritionist in Vancouver, Canada who helps exhausted career-driven moms lose weight. Before she was even ready for kids, she watched a documentary called The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake that planted a seed that would shape her future prenatal and birth care. She always wanted three kids, so after her son at 38, she wanted to try for a second at 40. She shares lots of nutritional tips that helped her get pregnant in one shot even though it...

068. Janice had five kids in her 20’s with a previous partner. She met her now fiancé at 39. Together, they had ten children but wanted a baby together. One reversed vasectomy and three IUI’s later, she wasn’t pregnant. Was the vasectomy the cause of not being able to get pregnant? She shares how using donor eggs was an easy choice and why this birth was the longest one of all. She was three months postpartum during the recording of the show. If you are TTC, pregnant, or postpartum over 40,...

067. Kiersten was pregnant in her 20’s and 30’s with her four kids from a previous marriage. When she met the love of her life at 41, they joked about having a baby together. It was a joke that turned into serious discussions of putting it in God’s hands to decide. Kiersten shares how she prepared for pregnancy without really knowing it. When she got pregnant, she felt like the only pregnant 41-year-old in the world. Join us as she shares her pregnancy challenges to being induced with an...

066. Jenn wanted three to four kids. After she got married at 20, she went on to have two babies in her 20’s. Two miscarriages followed which were devastating to her. She didn’t understand why she had losses after having two babies. She and her husband continued to try, but at 34 years old, the doctor told her she had little to not chance of having another baby. She was no longer ovulating. She eventually accepted it and moved on with her life. Join us today, as Jenn shares her shocking news...

065. Fertility Specialist Dr. Jeanie Schlafy from Denver, Colorado was pregnant at 42, 44, and at 48. This is her pregnancy journey at 48, but she’ll be referencing her other pregnancies. Growing up, Jeanie wanted five kids. At almost 40, she didn’t have children, nor was she married. One month before her 40th birthday, she met her future husband. A year later, they planned to marry. They decided together they wanted kids despite her fears. The very next month she was pregnant and gave birth...

064. Can you change your thoughts about money without changing the amount of money in your bank account? This show is to explore how you think about money. Is money the real challenge in your journey to motherhood? What is your money philosophy? In this episode I help you understand how to want from abundance, give you questions to ask yourself to help shape your journey, and help you understand that your thinking creates your results. I give you the steps to abundance thinking verse thinking...

Hi! Just wanted to let you know there will not be a show this week or next. The plan was to publish a show today about Money during TTC and it was terrible. I couldn't publish it. Instead, I decided to take a break for a few weeks, refresh and come back strong in 2024. I have so much I'm working on behind the scenes, I can't wait to show you! Have a great holiday and I'll see you next year! -Jamie Massey

063. Tara is half English and half American who now lives in New York City. She’s lived in ten countries and recorded the show while visiting family in the Bahamas. Thinking about having children happened decades ago for Tara. In her 30’s Tara calls herself a typical city woman who focused on her career, dated a lot, but no one serious. She ended a five-year relationship at 30, and the question of children was ever present for her. She wasn’t sure if she wanted children, but the idea of...

062. Gayle was pregnant at 42 and 45, but this is her story at 45. Her fiancé, Dean is nine years younger than her. She calls herself an original cougar.  They have been together for almost 17 years, so she was ready to have kids before he was.  Today, Gayle is a young 49 and lives near London in a place called Brixton with her fiancé and their two children. She always wanted a sibling for her first child, so they would have a close bond like she had with hers.  She just couldn’t imagine just...

061. Ashlee’s journey to motherhood started when she was just 24 years old. In fact, she’s had babies in her 20’s, 30’s and her last now at 40. She has a three-month-old, a 15 year old, a 13 year old, a 10 year old and an eight year old. In 2020, her fifth pregnancy and birth was a surrogacy. After the surrogacy she felt like her family was complete. It wasn’t two years later when she thought someone was missing. Join us as Ashlee shares how she planned her fifth baby and her tricks for...

060. Nana is almost 42 and recently married with their son that is four and half months old. When she first got together with her now husband, they were ready to have kids right away. She says it was quite a journey to have her son. Through pregnancy loss at 23 weeks on Christmas Day, her doctor told her not to get pregnant again. Find out her healing strategy and how she got her body ready for pregnancy again. Pregnancy for her was a mental challenge. Find out her journey to her son at 41...