The Cost of IVF and the Future of Reproductive Healthcare with Jessica Schaefer
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When I started my fertility journey almost a decade ago now, I froze my eggs and I documented it for Good Morning America. So it was all out there. The crying, the pinching my stomach, the giving myself shots. It was all very much out there and very much public. I am currently eight months pregnant and I have been keeping this moment in my life mostly private. Maybe I'll talk about it more. Maybe I won't. I do not know. But I do feel like I may talk about it someday because there's a lot at the But fertility, parenting, women's health is all top of mind for me now, both because of what's going on in my personal life, but also what's happening in the world. The election is next week. And as we all think about what it means to vote with our values on Tuesday, we're also reflecting on the last couple of months of the presidential campaigns. One of the issues that has been front and center on the campaign trail is reproductive health care. Of course, there was the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022.
But in the time since then, there's been more limitations placed on reproductive health care from abortion to IVF. Pretty much everything in between. My process of freezing my eggs was both empowering and really intimidating. When a doctor hands you over what's pretty much a bucket full of needles and hormones, you feel like you're in complete control of your health and future. But also, at least for me, I felt like I needed a medical degree for all of this. It is amazing that we have access to this kind of medicine, but there is certainly room for improvement to better benefit people going through the IVF process. And Jessica Schaefer agrees with me. Jessica and I talked before her startup, Lushy, officially launched.
And I actually knew I was pregnant during this interview, but I wasn't telling anyone yet, which is pretty perfect because my husband and I revealed our pregnancy news to our friends by telling them that we were launching a startup. So Jessica and I were both kind of undercover working on launches of different kinds during this interview. Anyway, you'll hear at the end of the episode that she gives us a little sneak peek, but I can tell you about it now. Lushy will offer treatments, clinics, and wellness platforms tailored to their female patients to help transform the IVF conception experience for American women. But Jessica hasn't always been in the healthcare space.
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