Wendy K. Laidlaw

Yes.

And you kind of knew why.

And I think that's where you were so great at being able to take a very sad situation and see, well, actually the silver lining is I can actually fall pregnant.

Being told that I couldn't.

Well, I know that I can as disappointing as it was.

Now I know what to do to it, to shore up the pregnancy and to ensure that I go full term.

thinking about getting pregnant we're trying but not trying yeah it's one of those we'll see what happens but i'll use gesturing cream because i know it's really good for me yeah and i know it helped before so awesome but um so tell me about matt falling pregnant with maddie that was that was such a beautiful thing and i think i've got a great photograph of you and brian brian's kissing your your lovely beautiful pregnant belly on the website and it's just such a lovely photograph

What was that like emotionally?

You know, when you're being told by these people in respected authoritarian kind of positions, you know, like, no, you'll never fall pregnant.

And then there you are, like when she was born, you know, what was that like just to hold her in your arms and think, wow.

Oh, I'm so pleased.

And, and, you know, even just hearing you talk about when you were 18 and you're being told you wouldn't have children.

Again, there's so many beautiful young women being told to have hysterectomies and that just breaks my heart.

I mean, I think that operation, I know my mother was devastated when she had a hysterectomy and she was never the same after that.

And she, she was devastated.

because we all need our uterus and our wombs up until we're 80s and they're 90s.

It's not just a redundant baby bag that needs to be removed from the body.

I mean, you think how the body is, the structure of the body and the scaffolding that goes on in there, the uterus separates the bladder and the intestines.

But for these gorgeous young women to have these operations that are devastating to the body,

is really and so the fact that you were able to avoid that but more importantly understand like you've got such a relationship with your body not only was it able to fall pregnant but you get pain free and now you're able to hold a job and and all these things that are