EP 25: The Difficult Conversation You NEED to Have With Yourself: Do you want kids? If so, when? How important is it to you?
If you are a woman or menstruator in your fertile years and you have not sat yourself down and truly thought about if you want kids, when you want them, how important it is to you and the reality of pregnancy in our modern world, IT IS TIME.
We now know that 8 of 10 women who are childless at the end of their fertile years did NOT want to be childless. This is a huge problem and one that I cannot overstate the importance of having a conversation about.
In modern society we are told that IVF, egg freezing, etc. are silver bullets and an amazing "plan B" if you can't get pregnant naturally. We are being sold the narrative that you can have kids whenever you want to and that if you can't have them naturally, technology will save you. This is doing us a disservice and preventing us from having a real, raw and honest conversation about fertility, pregnancy and our biological clocks.
In this episode, we are having this difficult conversation together. I walk you through some questions that I am asking not only myself, but my clients and friends. This isn't to make you want or not want kids, it's to help you explore, feel empowered about and truly get in touch with what YOU want and how you're going to make it happen.
Basic hormone, health and fertility testing I mentioned in this episode to talk to your doctor about:
- Thyroid panel: TSH, Total and Free T4, Total and Free T3, Reverse T3, Anti-TPO, Anti-thyroglobulin
- Fasting glucose
- Fasting insulin
- Iron panel: TIBC, ferritin, serum iron, transferrin saturation %
- B12
- Vitamin D
- Estrogen (estradiol)
- Free & Total Testosterone
- FSH
- LH
- AMH (Anti-Mullerian hormone) - not necessary but a good addition
- Antral follicle count - again, not necessary right away but good to know
The Huberman Lab podcast episode I Mentioned: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/dr-sara-gottfried-how-to-optimize-female-hormone-health-for-vitality-and-longevity
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