BE03. This is episode 3 of a 3-part series sharing my story. I'm talking about my recovery. During this recording, I'm six months postpartum. I am so lucky to be sharing my story! We left off the last episode with THE BIRTH STORY as us leaving the hospital as family of three. The first bonus episode we talked about being Over Due. Those two bonus episodes were in chronological order. However, in this show, there are over 25 topics I will to discuss and not be in any particular orde...

BE02. This is episode 2 of a 3-part (maybe 4) series sharing my story. I'm talking about my birth story with my good friend, Chantel. During this recording, I'm 4.5 months postpartum. I am so lucky to be sharing my story! We left off OVER DUE BONUS EPISODE 1 with my midwife appointment on Friday where I was scheduled to be induced on Sunday. This episode I share how we went our Saturday, how labor started on Sunday, and then the birth of my baby boy.If this is your first time here, I’m J...

BE01. This is episode 1 of a 3-party series sharing my story. We are talking about the ECV, when the doctor turned the baby from breech to head down, my expectations of starting labor, my birth plan, ways we tried to turn the baby head down, and how we tried to induce labor. The next episode is the BIRTH STORY, and the last one is postpartum RECOVERY. If this is your first time here, I’m Jamie Massey, 43 and the host of the podcast. It took us 3 years, 5 pregnancies, failed IVF, and a failed ...

090. We have two returning guests on to discuss pregnancy after loss over 40. The goal of this show is to share our experiences and normalize loss over 40 because loss is a part of so many of our journeys and we are not alone. We have returning guest from episode 48, Jamey. Jamey had a 10-year IVF journey that included two miscarriages and many other losses along the way to her pregnancy at 41 with her daughter using embryo adoption. Jenna, from episode 44 had four daughters with four losses ...

089. Alice Grist lives in the UK with her husband and three children. She was happy with her two daughters who were 12 and 8. She says she wasn't one of those little girls who fantasized about babies. Alice was 44 and assumed she was perimenopause and couldn't have more children, so little precaution was used to prevent it. Join us as Alice shares how babies weren't even something she was thinking about and how this pregnancy ended up being the toughest. If you are trying to have a baby over ...

088. Kerra lives in small town Graham, Texas with her husband and six boys. Kerra's journey to motherhood started when she was just 18 years old in high school. She went on to have four more boys with a previous marriage. Kerra had no intention of getting married again or having more children until her best friend turned into her husband. He told her he couldn’t have children because he had cancer a few years back. It didn’t matter to her because she already had five children, but in the back...

087. Kristen is from Rochester Hills, Michigan. She moved to Barcelona, Spain, after graduating with a masters in Spanish and met her husband there. They married when she was 27. Her first pregnancy she says was easy and assumed any pregnancy following it would be the same. Baby number two was a rainbow that didn’t come so easy. She wanted a third baby over 40 but wasn’t sure she was ready for the possibility of another loss. Join us as Kristen shares her journey to her natural pregnancy with...

086. Lorraine was born and raised in Azusa, California. She lives there with her 15-month-old healthy boy and husband. At 37, she lost her fiancé to 11-month battle with cancer. At 40, she met her husband and knew they would need fertility treatments. In the middle of her IVF journey and right before her wedding, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Join us, as she shares her emotional journey to motherhood at 44.If you are trying to have a baby over 40, I’d love to invite you to 40.40 Socie...

085. Judy was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at 12 years old and PCOS at 16 years old. Doctors told her she could never have children. She tried to have a baby in her 20’s but nothing happened. Judy believes it was a miracle to have a healthy baby at 37 years old and deliver at only 24-weeks of gestation. After a loss at 41, she never thought pregnancy would be an option again for her. Join us as Judy shares her pregnancy to her second baby at 46 and what she believes helped her get pregnant....

084. Erica is a 42 year old single mom in Akron, Ohio with two boys, one ten years old and the other is seven weeks old during the recording of the show. She is a coordinator at a high school and also teaches teen girls about self-empowerment and self-esteem building. Erica’s journey to motherhood started when she was 33 years old. Join us as she shares her surprise baby after meeting a blast from the past. “I love your podcast!” If that sounds like you, please consider rating and ...

083. Katie’s journey started when she was 34 when she had breast cancer and recently gotten back together with an ex-boyfriend. Knowing that chemotherapy was going to affect her fertility, she did one round of IVF and froze two embryos. Her boyfriend told her no matter what happened, he wanted her to have the embryos. Little did she know she would be denied access years later. Join us as Katie shares her story to motherhood with donor eggs.If you are just starting your journey to conception w...

082. Jen lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband Dave and their three children: Alli, her 11 year-old daughter, Taylor, her 8 year old daughter, Dylan, her 8 month old son. Jen had her first two daughters at 29 and 33. She never felt her family was complete and wanted a third. After a year of trying, she looked at fertility treatment and was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. Her husband wasn’t willing to go use fertility treatment. It wouldn’t be until five years of trying...

081. This is the second part of a two-part series where three ladies plus myself discuss the IVF process. Listen to Part I where we discuss our overall experiences. I’m pregnant in the second trimester at 43 with donor egg conception. We have returning guest from episode 50, Sonia. Sonia was pregnant at 44 with donor egg conception, also. Nisha is a returning guest from episode 56. She was pregnant at 43 with her first transfer of one embryo that led to her twin girls. Adriana is our first-ti...

080. We have three guests on to discuss IVF. The goal of this show is to share our experiences, so you can be confident if IVF is right for you. We have returning guest, Sonia from episode 50. Sonia had a six-year IVF journey to her pregnancy at 44 with her daughter using donor eggs. Nisha is a returning guest from episode 56. Nisha had a two-year IVF journey to her pregnancy at 43 with her first transfer of one embryo that led to twin girls. Adriana is a first-time guest on her seventh year ...

079. On episode 79, Bridget is working mom living in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband and her four ½ month old son. Bridget started dating her now husband when she was 38, and a month into their relationship found out she was pregnant. She was a little freaked out. Neither one of them had said ‘I love you’ yet, so she questioned how she was going to have a baby with him. Join us as Bridget shares her pregnancy struggles to almost starting the IVF process before she got naturally pregn...

078. Melodie had waited a long time to meet someone but had never really wanted children, even in her thirties. She met her partner at 41 and started having an intense desire to have a child with him. She and her partner talked about having a baby. She was pregnant the first month they tried but lost it. She was pregnant two cycles afterwards and lost that one, too. She was depressed about the two losses, and then her partner told her he didn’t want a baby. She moved out, but they still dated...

077. Shirley is a mother of three in California who was pregnant at 20, 47 and 49. At 20, she lived with her parents, and her mother was very abusive. It was very traumatic how she got pregnant and moved out immediately. Her 32-year-old son saved her life. Shirley started dating her wife 12 years ago, and they talked about starting a family five years into their relationship. The doctor said her wife’s egg reserve at 36 was very low. Shirley told the clinic she planned to carry the baby using...

076. Sarah is a personal trainer living in Miami, Florida with her husband of twenty years and their three-month-old daughter. She wasn’t ready to have kids after she married at 28. At 38, Sarah thought about having a baby at the same time as her best friend, and questioned why she was so afraid of having a baby. After a year of trying, she saw a fertility doctor because she hadn’t gotten pregnant and her cycles were long and irregular. They told her she was ovulating too late in her cycle an...

075. Tara grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts. She moved away to attend college at Northeastern in Boston. She moved out to Denver, Colorado almost 11 years ago when she was looking for a job after she completed her MBA. From an early age, Tara assumed she was going to have issues having children. Her mother and grandmother both went into menopause in their early 40’s. Every doctor told her she had a less than 10 % chance of conceiving naturally, so she didn’t see a reason to be on ...

074. Claire is a mom of three from the UK. When her third child arrived at 43, she had three children under the age of four. Her third child is two years old during the recording of the show. When she was single, she didn’t know if she wanted kids, but she thinks it was meeting the right person that sparked that desire. Claire says it was an accident she got pregnant at 39, her pregnancy at 41 was planned, but at 43, she didn’t want to believe it even though all of the signs were there. Join ...