13,000 to 20,000 for one ivf. age is the number one factor in predicting ivf success rates. i m too young for that. the stress of infertility can destroy a woman. i realize i was having a miscarriage. we have been trying for ten years. i m chanel jones. from nbc news. i m a journalist and also a mom, wife, friend, sister. i ve listened to so many stories over the years about what happens behind closed doors. but i believe it s time to come together and talk about it. i ve looped in some of my best friends and we ve decided to share openly and honestly. obviously this is happening to a lot of women. especially black women. just being able to help someone is why i want to talk to more people about it. let people know. every woman has a story. this is ours. i know each one of you in different ways, and i think about we talk about the fairytale first comes love, then comes marriage. and i think about my bridesmaids and all the girls that were behind me a
fibroid. i had never even heard of that before. my immediate reaction to him was i m i going to die? unfortunately i think that we don t hear a lot about it because it disproportionately affects women of color. and it starts to feel like nobody cares. my initial question was why am i growing these? he said your body just likes to grow them. i never had an ob/gyn that i felt slowed down in that process. it was just there are certain size you have the symptoms you have to get them taken out we re going to schedule you for surgery. so when i had the surgery, first off i was told that i would have a very small bikini line incision. and i woke up straight out and
your head and a lot of emotions to deal with. i have to keep moving. i have to keep pushing. this will not break me. this will not derail my plans, my life. so that is when i was like, i want to go to a fertility specialist. i want to see if there s something wrong. is it something we can diagnose? fix or work through. i m a problem solver by nature. all of the tests came back with no issue, no problem. plenty of eggs. you re healthy. your fertile. sometimes miscarriages just happen. that s when my fertility doctor said. that s what my ob/gyn said, that s with the research says. i took a couple months and we tried again that summer. and got pregnant right away. so getting pregnant has never been an issue for us. some of the excitement and carefreeness and joy that you think of about being pregnant is taken away from you. you are worried every day.
i had never even heard of that before. my immediate reaction to him was i m i going to die? unfortunately i think that we don t hear a lot about it because it disproportionately affects women of color. and it starts to feel like nobody cares. my question was why am i growing these? he said your body just likes to grow them. i never had an ob/gyn that i felt slowed down in that process. it was just there are certain size you have the symptoms you have to get them taken out we re going to schedule you for surgery. so when i had the surgery, first off i was told that i would have a very small bikini line incision. and i woke up straight out and down. the position of it, and the size of it, they were not able
this one was definitely a lot more sad than the first one. it s just a lot going on in your head and a lot of emotions to deal with. i have to keep moving. i have to keep pushing. this will not break me. this will not derail my plans, my life. so that is when i was like, i want to go to a fertility specialist. i want to see if there s something wrong. is it something we can diagnose? fix or work through. i m a problem solver by nature. all of the tests came back with no issue, no problem. plenty of eggs. your healthy. your fertile. sometimes miscarriages just happen. that s when my fertility doctor said. that s what my ob/gyn said, that s with the research says. i took a couple months and we tried again that summer. we got pregnant right away. so getting pregnant has never been an issue for us. some of the excitement and carefree nunes and joy that you