Erin Holland

And I completely understand why because it's so hard in the moment to be vulnerable and to share as you're experiencing loss after loss after hope after loss is that people don't share in real time because it's too painful.

But then when you're in it, all you want is to see someone else or be able to speak to someone else or listen to something that...

rides on that journey with you.

And so I thought if I can be that person, if I can share something that at all resonates with someone or at least just be like, hey, you know, I'm going through it too.

And, you know, the private DMs, the people in our circles as well who've reached out, he would have no idea had gone through it as well.

Yeah.

It was actually a referral from, you know, someone who we all know very well in this world who put me on to the doctor that was ultimately successful.

So I'll be forever grateful for her for that connection.

We're humans as well.

Infertility does not discriminate.

No, and that's the thing.

I'm so lucky that I was in a position to be able to keep going and that's what breaks my heart is that, you know,

So many people hit dead ends because they can't afford to keep going.

And my issues were complex and they were very medical and there was a number of things along the way that had to be solved in this jigsaw puzzle of finding out what my issue was.

And I'm very cautious to not ever share the specifics of that because it's such a...

Like everyone's journey is completely different.

It would be very negligent of me to say anything medical because what my situation was would be so different to everyone else's situation.

But the one thing I will say is if you're not happy and you feel like you're hitting, you know, you're heading against a brick wall and you're not getting anywhere, seek a second opinion.

You don't have to leave your doctor tomorrow, but just, you know, put it out there, speak to other people, see what other people can come up with.

And that is, I think, ultimately what helped me.