Written By Kate Nguy

Episode 41: Building my Family with Donor Eggs with Laura Watson

Today we have a special guest sharing her story on building her family with donor eggs. Infertility can be incredibly heartbreaking and it sometimes forces us to look at alternative ways to build our family. Laura so beautifully and openly shares her journey of how this was her story.

Laura Watson is a fertility coach and mom to two donor conceived children. Her personal journey included failed fertility treatments, several unsuccessful rounds of IVF, and three heartbreaking pregnancy losses before completing her family with donor egg IVF. She now supports women pursuing fertility treatments to build their families and helps them find control, confidence, and joy in a complicated process. Laura founded her coaching services, Positive Fertility, in 2022. She is the author of the Positive Fertility Blog, was a featured author in the 2021 collaborative book, Infertility Success: Stories of Help and Hope for Your Journey. She lives in Boston, MA, USA with her husband and two children.

In this episode we chat about:

  • Laura’s journey through IVF and her decision to use donor eggs

  • The grief of multiple failed IVF’s and miscarriages

  • How she has processed not sharing DNA with her children and instead focuses on how she can share elements of her through nurture

  • Honouring your story

  • Her top tips and tools to navigating the donor egg option

  • How to share your child’s conception with them

RESOURCES:

Kate Nguy

Kate Nguy is a Certified Hormone Health Practitioner and Cycle-Syncing Strategist who helps women in their 30s and 40s struggling with PMS, perimenopause, and burnout balance their hormones and reclaim their energy. As the creator of the Hormone R.E.S.T. Method, she guides busy women to understand why they feel the way they do—especially in the second half of their cycle—and gives them practical tools to live in sync with their natural rhythms.

Kate is the host of the Aligned Womb, Aligned You podcast and serves as Executive Director of The Menopause Mission. Her mission is simple: to help women stop white-knuckling through their cycles and start working with their hormones instead of against them.

https://sheerevival.com
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