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TW: Miscarriage
Any pregnancy loss can be traumatic, but Hollie Farmer experienced multiples losses, health complications and trauma on her journey to motherhood.
Hollie is a beautiful woman who is very special to our family. She has been a babysitter of my 3 girls over the years and I have watched her grow into an incredibly strong, thoughtful and deeply compassionate woman.
Her story is one of great heartache, adversity and incredible resilience.
In this episode she shares:
- Her instant connection with her husband and their decision to start a family young
- The extended period of infertility after assuming pregnancy would happen easily
- The heartbreak of multiple miscarriages after finally falling pregnant
- How she lost excitement around pregnancy and it was replaced with fear and anticipatory grief
- When she discovered she was carrying an undiagnosed ectopic twin pregnancy that nearly killed her
- The trauma of emergency surgery, losing a fallopian tube and feeling failed by her body
- How infertility consumed every part of her identity, relationships and daily life
- The emotional and financial toll of IVF, including spending over $30,000 trying to conceive
- How she fell pregnant naturally after reaching the point of emotional exhaustion and wanting to stop trying
- How she navigated a pregnancy filled with fear, hypervigilance and the inability to trust her body
Key Quotes
“I had to go back to work. I had to work for two weeks knowing that the pregnancy had ended and I was still carrying that pregnancy.”
“I lost the ability to trust my body and to trust my intuition.”
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