Dr. Mary Claire Haver

I navigated intrauterine insemination and ovarian drilling to have my children.

I am a board certified OBGYN who had been practicing medicine for years through all of that.

And I still did not have the full picture of what was happening in my own body.

This is not a personal failure.

This is a system that was never designed to give women this information.

Before you think this episode may not be for you because you're past the fertility chapter, stay with me.

What happens to your ovarian function in your 30s and 40s does not stay in your 30s and 40s.

It shapes your perimenopause, your metabolic health, your brain, and your bones.

The fertility story and the menopause story are the same story.

Your biological clock is not about running out of time.

It's about egg quality.

Those are completely different problems with completely different solutions, and almost nobody is telling women that.

Women are being told to hurry up when what they actually need is information about what they can do starting now, not in a panic at 38.

So when today's guest, Dr. Natalie Crawford, a double board certified OBGYN and reproductive endocrinologist, asked me to write the foreword for her new book, The Fertility Formula, I said yes before I finished reading the ask.

I believe in this information with everything that I have.

I love this book for every woman who was where I was.

I especially love it for my daughters because the information they deserve to have about their own fertility should not have to wait until something goes wrong.

I'm Dr. Mary Claire Haver, a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and certified menopause practitioner.

I'm also an adjunct professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Texas Medical Branch.

Welcome to Unpaused, the podcast where we cut through the silence and talk about what it really takes for women to thrive in the second half of life.