Musician and Infertility Warrior Kina Grannis on Infertility, Anxiety and IVF

Infertile AF: Infertility and Modern Family Building

Today, Ali is talking to the brilliant singer-songwriter-guitarist Kina Grannis about her five year-long infertility journey. Kina talks about adopting a super clean diet and reading all the books before she started to try getting pregnant; why she was hesitant to share her infertility journey at first; and how the mention of the word, "IVF" made her want to die. She talks about going through IVF transfers; how "holding it all in was like this poison pressure cooker inside of me," and her "needle phobia." She also talks about finally getting pregnant; the text she sent her friends when pregnancy after infertility felt very scary; and writing infertility-related songs, including the beautiful, "In the Waiting."

For more, go to www.kinagrannis.com

IG: @kinagrannis

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