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I’m super excited to have Josephine Atluri on today’s show. We’re talking about how to empower your fertility journey. Josephine is a meditation teacher, and she works with people to help them find a calmer existence despite the chaos that may surround them. She is also a coach who offers specialized fertility empowerment and mindfulness workshops and private sessions. She has a podcast titled Responding to Life: Living Reflectively to a Journey of Health, Fertility, and Parenthood.
Dr. Aimee: Welcome, Josephine. Thank you for being here today.
Josephine Atluri: It’s my pleasure. Thank you so much for having me.
Dr. Aimee: Thank you for all the work that you do. I’d love for you to share more about yourself. Can you please share some of your personal fertility story with us?
Josephine Atluri: My journey began about 15 years ago. We knew going into it that we would have to begin straight into IVF ICSI because of an illness that my husband had back when we were dating that led to male fertility issues.
We began probably when I was around 25. We went on for two years with back to back cycles that, unfortunately, did not work. Then we decided to switch to another facility, and became pregnant with twins. The first trimester things were going great. Then all of a sudden, at 17 weeks in, water gushed out. The next thing I know, I’m in the hospital. Unfortunately, we could not save the twins.
It was at that point that I finally had time to not just grieve the loss of my twins, but just grieve everything. When you’re going through cycle after cycle, you really don’t afford yourself much time to really process everything, because you have to get back in and it feels so time sensitive.