I Fought For You: Recent Episodes
Shaheena
Look! It didn't take me a year for this update! I discuss my experience with breastfeeding, feeling like a failure, and that you should do what's best for your mental health.
I joked that this was my annual update, but I realized it's been nearly two years. I discuss my experience after giving birth to my daughter. Trigger warning - this episode discusses living children.
TRIGGER WARNING - This episode describes a live pregnancy and graphic details of blood clots.
The second step in the IVF process - embryo transfer, and how COVID-19 affected our journey.
Well, it's been a LONNNNNNGGGGGG six months since I've provided any sort of update. This episode details what has happened in those six months.
In this episode, I explain my long absence, and the current status of our journey in trying to conceive, including discussing IUI.
During this episode, I interview my cousin, Misti, who is a 22-year leukemia survivor. Misti was told she would never have kids, but she now has a health 13-year old son. We also discuss Misti's miscarriage prior to getting pregnant with her son.
I encourage everyone to visit http://join.bethematch.org/survivor to find out more about becoming a bone marrow donor.
To donate to Misti's Light the Night Page, please visit https://pages.lightthenight.org/txg/Houston19/MRoussell-Vidrine.
In this episode, my sister-in-law and I discuss complications in pregnancy. Specifically, we discuss preeclampsia and premature babies. We also discuss being a working mother versus being a stay-at-home mother.
In this episode, I discuss my experiences at a fertility doctor (what they tested, and what we found out), my experiences with suction D&Cs, and things that people say that are hurtful, even though they mean well.
A conversation about parenting including going back to work after having your child, breastfeeding, being a single mom, mommy groups, mom shaming, and everything in between.
My husband discusses toxic masculinity, how the miscarriages affected him, and his perspective of what we went through.