Episode 43: The One With Heather's Family Planning Story: Navigating Loss and Finding Hope
Heather shares her profound journey through infant and pregnancy loss, IVF, and surrogacy, demonstrating remarkable resilience as she navigates multiple paths to motherhood.
• Heather's involvement with Emma's Footprints, an organization supporting families experiencing pregnancy or infant loss, which she found after the loss of her daughter Lyla at two weeks old in July 2021
• Her experience with IVF, the egg retrieval process and the emotional roller coaster of three embryo transfer attempts. Kristen also discusses her experience with egg freezing.
• Her unexpected natural pregnancy with son Owen as her and her husband were pursuing adoption
• Developing placenta accreta during pregnancy leading to emergency C-section and partial hysterectomy
• Her decision to pursue surrogacy for their second child using remaining embryos from IVF
• Heather joining Emma's Footprints board of directors and organizing a memorial walk in Boston in May
Join us at the upcoming Emma's Footprints memorial walk in Boston this May. Details will be shared soon on our social media.
