Season 1 · Episode 25
Ep. 25: Pietrina Musumeci's Motherhood Journey: IVF after Infertility and PCOS, Birth Story and Postpartum.
Becoming a Mother · Brittany Olson
June 16, 202555m 26s
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Show Notes
Pietrina Musumeci: Mom of 2 ages 5 and 2 shares her journey to motherhood, deciding to pursue IVF after facing challenges with infertility. She describes the 3-year process, including the emotional ups and downs and her successful first embryo transfer. Pietrina talks about her pregnancy experience, balancing work, and eventually transitioning to maternity leave. She shares her birth story and postpartum experience as well as the decision to grow her family at the start of the COVID pandemic which causes a huge delay in her journey for a multitude of reasons, her journey really was a wild ride! She shares such sound advice for women struggling with fertility, encouraging them to persist and seek solutions and advocate for yourself along the way.