Fertility Over 40 - Facing age negativity from doctors

Trying to get pregnant over 40….Have you felt embarrassed, ashamed or disregarded when seeking consultation from a fertility doctor due to being the age you are? Let’s talk about this dynamic and how to navigate it.
I'm Natalie Masson, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and fertility coach who has guided hundreds of others through their fertility journey after my own struggles in my mid-40s. I share meditations and education to help you optimize your fertility and thrive on this journey.
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[@FertilityfromtheSoul]

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[@britt6612]

Dr's make more money if you use donor eggs. They'd most likely suggest it for people in their 20's too if they could. I got pregnant naturally after a tubal reversal at age 46, and gave birth to a healthy baby girl. It can happen. Keep your head up and don't let anyone tell you you can't do something.

[@someone3187]

OMG this is wonderful, I'm impressed and extatic for you and at the same time this gives me hope! Did you mean Tube reversal as in fallopian tube recanalisation (=FTR)? After a failed IVF in 2022, then a failed IUI transfer in August 2023 and a serious infection (PID) I (45) got a laporoscopy at the hospital. They found that both my tubes are blocked and that there was dead tissue (webs caused by bacteria). They cleaned that up and I took Doxycycline and Azytromicin and suplements. I asked if this was enough, or would I need a hysteroscopy, but they said no, I was good to go with IVF. Then I did two rounds of IVF November /December '23, but both embryo transfers failed again. Then I insisted on a hysteroscopy and it was confirmed that of course my uterus was also covered by dead tissue from the inside by that same infection. The embryos could not attach to a uterus covered by white, death tissue. The dead tissue had been caused by bacteria which couldn't be detected by usual swabs. During the hysteroscopy they removed that dead tissue (visually it looked like cotton candy), they also did a microbiota test inside the endometrium and the lab found some other bacteria. After that I took metronidazole and serrapeptase and lots of other suplements and started IVF from scratch. On top of this I had also caught from swimming streptococcus agalactiae, but that was treated during egg retrieval by giving me cefaclor for one week.
I had my last embryo transfer last Friday and hope it will be healthy and stick. If this doesn't work out I'd like to do an FTR. Until recently I didn't know about this possibility.

[@stuartist]

Great video. I wish there was more information out there about extending fertility/improving egg quality naturally, but I guess that's not profitable enough for most scientists to bother studying?
Dr Joy Kong and Nathalie Niddam have talked a bit about how certain peptides may help fertility. Maybe you could interview one of them someday?

[@FertilityfromtheSoul]

Oh I could do a whole video on why there isn’t more research on natural fertility! I do think it has to do with where the money can be made. But I draw from research on other age related health conditions and extrapolate to fertility and egg quality. You can see some of this in my Fertility Crash Course video. I’m terms of more experimental things like peptides, I’m reluctant to out a lot of stock in things that are very experimental but I’m always opening to hear what people are discovering.