After a heartbreaking loss and an unsuccessful cycle, Rebecca found healing, restored her cycle, and got pregnant naturally. 💫 Listen to this Story of Hope and be reminded that miracles can happen when you least expect them.

Aimee (00:02):
Hello everyone. I am so excited to be here with Rebecca. She so graciously agreed, or I shouldn’t say agreed. Wanted to come on and share her story of hope with all of you. Rebecca is what, 27 weeks pregnant right now? That’s right at the age of 43. She’s going to give birth when she’s 44. You want to show us the little bump? How’s the baby bump feel? Not so little. It’s not the little, little 27 weeks, not so little. Oh, look it. I love it. I love it. Yay. So I mean, we were just talking and there’s lots of details we want to share about the case with all of you, because I know you guys love to hear the details and to understand things. I think high level stuff that I think is great to know is you conceived during a time to intercourse cycle. So this was a choral,

Rebecca (01:04):
It wasn’t. It was natural, but it wasn’t from the timed intercourse.

Aimee (01:11):
Wait, say that again? Explain that.

Rebecca (01:14):
We did do a time to intercourse cycle, but we didn’t get with that. It was actually several months

Aimee (01:18):
Later. Oh, it was several months later. Okay. Okay. See in my, okay, so you did the time during your course cycle. Nothing happened then. Okay, so let’s back up. Let’s share the whole story. So you have, what is your daughter 11 years old right now?

Rebecca (01:31):
That’s right.

(01:33):
So I had my daughter 11 years ago. I got pregnant very easily. I think it was the second month of trying. It was the month after our honeymoon. A couple of my friends had had a little bit of challenges, so I was like, we have to start right away. We don’t know how long this is going to take. And it took a month. It was a very uneventful pregnancy, super easy vaginal birth. Everything went really well. She was and is a handful. She was a terrible sleeper. She’s so active. She never even sat in her high chair for feeding. It’d be like chasing her around trying to get her to eat. So we weren’t looking to have another for a while. And then she gets to kindergarten, gets little easier as anyone who has a child knows mostly get to school age, it’s like, okay, they’re there for the little break. And we started discussing it. And I remember being on a Valentine’s Day date with my husband in February of 2020, and we’re like, okay, let’s go for the second. And we all know what happened a month later.

Aimee (02:44):
Yeah, COVID, my god.

Rebecca (02:46):
So this was not to me. I know some people, it worked better for them. They were home. They were like, let’s do this. For me, it was the opposite. My husband only had two months off work. He works in, at the time, he was working at the New York Stock Exchange and they were considered essential workers. So he was going into ground zero of COVID every single day, and it just wasn’t on the table for us. Okay. So then July of 2021, I turned 40 and I was sort of like, okay, if we are going to do this, we better start trying. I was pretty confident I had gotten pregnant very easily, had no complications. No one in my family has ever had any bill of fertility issues. My cousin didn’t even start having her kids until she was 40. She had one at 40, her other at 42. So I was like, oh, this is going to be a breeze. Well, a year goes by and nothing happens.

Aimee (03:47):
Nothing. And your cycles are regular. Your

Rebecca (03:51):
Yeah, but I obviously started to worry at that point and I thought there might be something wrong with me. Maybe immune wise, I have had food sensitivities for a long time.

Aimee (04:07):
And what kind of sensitivities?

Rebecca (04:10):
Everyone? Yeah, like heartburn, reflux, mostly with dairy, but the worst one, drinking wine, things like that. So alcohol and mostly similar triggers to other people. Gluten a little, although not, didn’t seem quite as hard as the dairy. I also used to catch every cold that my daughter would bring home. So I thought maybe there was some sort of issue with the immune system. And I was having abnormal pap smears for many years at this point. Maybe it had been four or five years. And then a month after my 40th birthday, I found out that I was basically one step away from having cervical cancer.

Aimee (05:04):
That’s so scary.

Rebecca (05:05):
It is. And it’s like, I mean, everyone can get, anyone who gets cancer probably says, this was like, how could it be me? I was super healthy. I’ve exercised my whole life. I’ve eaten impeccably. Just let a really healthy lifestyle. But I think the stress of having this challenging child and then with COVID, the stress was keeping the body on unable to fight this virus.

Aimee (05:34):
Yeah, it keeps the HPV infection up for certain, yeah,

Rebecca (05:38):
It definitely was, I think mostly stress induced.

Aimee (05:42):
You worked with someone though to help with? Yeah. Tell that story about this.

Rebecca (05:47):
Because of the stage I was at, they told me I could not get pregnant right now. It would be dangerous because it could very easily turn into cancer. So that really so hard for me. Here I am now 41, and they’re saying you have to wait. And of course they wanted me to cut part of my cervix out, which didn’t sound good just because I, not only I wanted to have this baby, but just to me it never made sense for them to just chop body parts out. It’s such a strange idea. I’m much more on the side, let’s look at the underlying issue. Let’s treat what’s causing the problem as opposed to just, oh, we’ll just cut a piece out and move on. You haven’t gotten rid of what caused it in the first place. So I did a lot of research and I found a natural path who was only 20 minutes away. Who Just up near

Aimee (06:48):
Me. In Westport? Yeah. Yeah.

Rebecca (06:50):
I’m right in San

Aimee (06:52):
I know you’re in Stanford.

Rebecca (06:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We’re

Aimee (06:54):
Neighbors.

Rebecca (06:57):
So this was amazing. She was right there, and I had been dealing with this for so many years. She was able to treat it naturally and get rid of it in three months. That’s amazing.

Aimee (07:11):
Yes. What’d she do? So share with everyone.

Rebecca (07:13):
So a lot of it was supplements to support your immune system. There’s certain ones that really sort of target the virus. And also she does this topical treatment to your cervix called sclerotic treatment, and they use what’s called the blood root. And this has been used actually for skin cancer. It sort of just treats the surface of the skin and fill off those layers where the abnormal cells are. So I don’t remember how many treatments it took, but

Aimee (07:48):
Was that treatment painful or uncomfortable

Rebecca (07:53):
Compared to natural childbirth? It was like a pin prick.

Aimee (07:57):
Okay.

Rebecca (07:58):
Maybe a little burning, but almost nothing.

Aimee (08:02):
So then you did that for six months and then you had to wait thing? Right, the whole

Rebecca (08:06):
Thing, getting the appointment, doing all that, took about six months. So now I am rounding the corner to 42, and I’m feeling so much pressure about that, which I know is the wrong thing to do, but it’s so natural.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yes,

Rebecca (08:22):
It’s really natural. Anyway.

Aimee (08:23):
Also, I always like to point out, it’s like it’s pressure, but it’s also your timeline. At 40 you decided, and then your time got hijacked by the A CB and the dysplasias. So it’s like the pressure is normal because someone told you you had to wait. You know what I mean? The pause button was hit.

Rebecca (08:40):
Exactly it. I was not. It

Aimee (08:42):
Was against your will. Yeah.

Rebecca (08:44):
Yeah. So we’re now in March of 2023, and I’m putting all this pressure on myself, but I do this research and just as I wanted a natural approach in treating the HPV, I wanted a natural approach to increasing my fertility. And I found you and I got your book and I read it in a minute, and I started implementing all of the things that you suggested.

Aimee (09:16):
What were some of the things that you were doing differently? I feel like you’re a pescatarian, so I think that’s important to point out too. And maybe not enough protein. That was a big shift for you. What else was a big shift?

Rebecca (09:32):
Yeah, I think just streamlining the diet a little bit. I did try to increase, I started eating eggs, which I was not a huge fan of genetically. My cholesterol just gets really high, so I always had this aversion to them, but I was like, well, it’ll be temporary. So I definitely added a whole bunch, just more animal products I guess, to my diet. Also, just did a lot more supplements to support my body, and I started testing my hormones at home.

Aimee (10:15):
Right, you were using the proof and Yeah,

Rebecca (10:18):
I started off with proof. I ended up switching later on to a needle.

Aimee (10:21):
Yeah, that’s what I thought. Ato. Okay.

Rebecca (10:23):
Yeah. But I started out with the proof I found. Oh, castor oil paps. That’s right. With those, which were great. And I found your stories of hope, which not

Aimee (10:37):
One of them. You manifested this.

Rebecca (10:40):
I would imagine this though. That’s the thing. It was a lot of that manifestation where I was just envisioning myself on the other side and the stories helped so much with that. Just some of your ladies, what they went through, it’s just incredible. And I’m like, if this person did it, I certainly can do this. So the stories just really boosted my confidence. It made me feel like I wasn’t alone in this. I wasn’t sharing with very many people that I was even on this journey. So just to have those stories and to feel like you almost had a relationship with these women who went through this was super, super important. I gained a little

Speaker 3 (11:28):
Weight.

Rebecca (11:30):
I’m just a petite person and I love to exercise, so I do tend to just be on the lower end of the spectrum. But I was like with my cycle, I was like, it started to get a little lighter. I’m like, let

Aimee (11:43):
Me, it was lighter and you had spotting before, but yeah, we can get to that part. Yeah,

Rebecca (11:47):
So I did maybe put on maybe five pounds or so. I also introduced seed cycling and cycle thinking with my exercise. I started fertility yoga. So there was just a lot of different things that I started to add in, and I just really was committed to what you told me to do. And nine months later I did get pregnant.

Aimee (12:13):
That was January of 24.

Rebecca (12:15):
January of 2024. I was 42 and a half. And I mean obviously overjoyed, I was just jumping up and down. I felt like this nightmare was over. All the work paid off and here’s my reward. And five days later I miscarried.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
So

Rebecca (12:37):
Sad. It was very difficult. At the same time, I was glad it happened so soon.

(12:44):
I feel like if it had happened later, it would’ve been much more difficult. At the same time, I did grieve. I really did, and I allowed myself to because I didn’t want to just dismiss it. But there was also this feeling like that was it. That was my last chance already, 42 and a half, and it took years to even get to this point. Do I have more years? I don’t know. So that was really tough, but after a couple of weeks I said to myself, you have a choice to make. You can get stuck on this and believe that that was it. That was your last shot. Or you can double down. You can get more help. And you can see it as you got pregnant. I hadn’t been pregnant in 10 years. My body can still do this. And so that’s the route I took. And I got in touch with your team

Aimee (13:51):
And Rebecca and I never worked one-on-one together. So she worked with Dr. Carrie, who is one of our fertility coaches, and I do with all the coaches, I oversee the cases. So I was Carrie and I have our calls weekly, and I was in on Rebecca’s case, but I think that’s an important point is that you and I never worked one-on-one together. She read the books and then she coached with the team. Yeah. So go ahead. So you met with Dr. Carrie? I met

Rebecca (14:21):
With Carrie. She was great. She really helped me to sort of consolidate my supplements. I

Aimee (14:29):
Was, yeah, we go through that too.

Rebecca (14:31):
This type A person who was doing every single possible thing I’d ever heard of was including a hundred supplements. So she was like, okay, let’s pair this down a little. And we met over to make sure that the dosages were right, things like that. And even though I had been basically following the diet from the book, she did think my protein still wasn’t high enough.

Aimee (15:02):
And you had said something like, oh, my goal is 60 grams a day. And Carrie was like, we’re going to make that 80 thought that was a big one. It was

Rebecca (15:10):
An adjustment. And she encouraged me to do the bone broth, which I was resistant to at first because I haven’t eaten meat since I was 15. But I said to myself, look, it’s temporary and how bad do you really want this baby? I was like, I really want this baby, so I’m just going to go ahead and do it. So that was another way I was able to up the protein. I was doing the collagen peptides, which I found a marine one, so I had the fish called peptides. So that worked. And she also recommended this antihistamine diet, I think was really pivotal.

Aimee (16:00):
Tell everybody what were the big things that you watched when you did antihistamine?

Rebecca (16:06):
What did I cut out?

Aimee (16:07):
Yeah.

Rebecca (16:08):
So I was also a little resistant to this. At first I was like, I’m already restricting so much. I don’t have the gluten, I don’t have the dairy. And now I had to take out fermented things, fermented

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Foods.

Rebecca (16:20):
And when I looked at that list, I was like, oh my God, because even strawberries and I’m like, what am I going to eat? And all those non-dairy yogurts and cheeses and things are all fermented. I was having kombucha all the time. I thought I was doing something good for myself, and it was like the complete opposite of what my body wanted. So I noticed right

Aimee (16:45):
Away. But you were having to, I don’t want to cut you off, but your digestion wasn’t great. She was having some urgency with her bowel movements and then like you said, the reflux. Yeah, there were

Rebecca (16:56):
Definitely symptoms.

Aimee (16:58):
And so I thought it was a good call from Carrie’s perspective,

Rebecca (17:02):
And it totally was. I mean, it completely changed those things for me. And even now as I’m pregnant with my daughter, the reflux was so bad. Anything I put in my mouth, I had reflux. I have not had an issue at all. Maybe now that I’m getting bigger and there’s not some space, I’m having to eat smaller portions and things like that, but I have not had any symptoms of reflux this whole pregnancy. So I’m blown away by this and just so appreciative. It doesn’t. So simple.

Aimee (17:36):
And here’s a sample. I have one of your food diaries up. So it is like she had one cup of black tea with unsweetened oat milk, one scoop of marine collagen, some Brazil nuts. Then she had eggs, two eggs with the simple needs, gluten-free toast and some sauteed spinach. Then another cup of tea, and then spring mixed lettuce, roasted sweet potatoes, olives, carrots, three to four ounces of salmon, hemp seeds, chickpeas, tahini dressing. Sounds amazing. Then you had a Jones’ bar, I don’t know which one that is, but I’m sure it was approved at the time. Sauteed Brussels sprouts and three bean salad for dinner. And she’s literally eating 7:00 AM 9:00 AM 1 4, 6 30. So she’s eating every two-ish three hours getting in your protein. So that’s just a sample of what you were eating too, which doesn’t sound that right. Sounds pretty good.

Rebecca (18:35):
Yeah, it was good. And once I got into it and made those changes, it really wasn’t as overwhelming as I thought it was going to be. It was just the staring at that list of things I couldn’t eat. And it was like, oh god. But it was totally fine.

Aimee (18:52):
And then we also gave some daddy diet tips too to your husband and some supplement recommendations for him as well, right?

Rebecca (19:00):
Yeah, he is super healthy as well. Loves to exercise. We’ll get into that a little bit more later. But yeah, eats pretty similar to me. So there weren’t huge changes.

Aimee (19:17):
And reading through Carrie’s initial recommendations was like get up to 80 grams of protein a day with the six to eight servings of veg. And we gave you some of our cheat sheets, get in five eggs a week, which was a lot for her. She wasn’t in the cholesterol thing you were talking about and add in a half of an avocado a day, bone broth, four ounces five times a week. The collagen peptides we gave you the smoothie guide and then yeah, some of the other, the histamine food lists we gave you. So

Rebecca (19:51):
Yeah, also you recommended some testing to do based on my symptoms, just to see if there was some autoimmune thing going on. Plus actually after the miscarriage, we’ll make sure that wasn’t a factor in that. So I didn’t do the whole list of testing all at once. I started small to see if something popped up, and then I was going to kind of go from there. So initially I got the C-reactive protein done, the A a, the ovarian antibodies. I checked my day 21 progesterone, my DHA levels and thyroid function, more thyroid than they normally do, A little bit more

Aimee (20:30):
A complete panel is what we say.

Rebecca (20:32):
Yes, complete panel and everything looked fine. So that was thrilling. I didn’t feel like I needed to do additional testing at that time.

Aimee (20:42):
But you did have the M-T-H-F-R, right? You had one copy of the M-T-H-F-R, do you know? I mean in the follow up she writes, here’s our MT HFR guide. So I was making an assumption that that was tested, but maybe that

Rebecca (20:57):
No,

Aimee (20:58):
Maybe we were just kind of getting ahead of ourselves in the sense

Rebecca (21:01):
Or assuming, right?

Aimee (21:02):
Yeah,

Rebecca (21:03):
Assuming. And then I went on the herbs,

Speaker 3 (21:06):
That’s right

Rebecca (21:07):
Cycle because when I was younger, my cycle maybe it was probably too heavy. It used to last a week, it was quite heavy, a little bit of clotting. And then as I kept getting on in my years, it got much shorter, lighter and brown at the beginning and end. So I started to think maybe my progesterone was low, and actually

Aimee (21:31):
It was right.

Rebecca (21:32):
It was a little low with the proof that it was low. Even when I did have my pregnancy and miscarriage, it was low during that implantation. So I went ahead and through proof, actually was able to get on a progesterone supplement, sort of like why not?

Aimee (21:52):
Was it their proof oil, that one that they make?

Rebecca (21:57):
I did start using that, but then I ended up going on using

Aimee (22:01):
Respiratory. Yeah, yeah, the 200 milligrams. I remember seeing that. Correct.

Rebecca (22:05):
Yeah.

Aimee (22:07):
So then your cycle to shift a little bit. Right.

Rebecca (22:10):
At least shift. So I was on the herbs for several months. I was so optimistic I was going to get pregnant right after the miscarriage. So several months go by and nothing happened. Although I’m seeing these really awesome positive changes in my body. So that is great. But we decide we want to start with a fertility clinic just to make sure there’s not something else going on. Maybe get, my husband at this point hadn’t even had a full semen analysis.

Aimee (22:41):
You had just done one that you could mail in, right? You did an at-home one, right? I

Rebecca (22:45):
Did the at-home one, and it was not great. It wasn’t in the terrible zone, but it was just above sort of made mediocre. So we wanted to do that as well. And you recommended Dr. Megi?

Aimee (23:01):
Yes.

Rebecca (23:02):
Who is very close to me. So that was great. And after, at the end of our initial just appointment with him, he asked, he’s like, oh, so how many do you want to have?

Aimee (23:18):
I love that, right?

Rebecca (23:20):
And I’m like, yes, this is the guy. I mean, I knew from hearing from you and whatnot and some of your stories or whatever, that he was that way, but it was just so reassuring that he was, wasn’t like, well, I don’t know. You’re 42 and we can’t guarantee. He’s like, how many more kids do you want? Yeah. So that was great. So we did all the basic testing, made sure my tubes were open. We tested the A MH,

Aimee (23:53):
What was it? It was like a 0.8, wasn’t it? If I remember

Rebecca (23:55):
0.8. Just like normal, I guess for me. Not amazing or something.

Aimee (24:01):
But it was fine. It was good. And all her numbers were in range. So it also was this thing of why is she not getting pregnant? Yes, exactly.

Rebecca (24:11):
And for me, I almost feel bad saying it. Actually going to the clinic was the super positive experience. Everything I kept getting back was showing me You’re good. And so I think mentally, this was huge. My antral follicle count was 17, which is a 30-year-old. So I was like, oh, okay, this is looking good. So it sort of erased this idea that there was something wrong with me. And so my husband did have the regular semen analysis, and again, it was okay, but there seemed to be room for him to grow. So I bought him some different underwear. Good, whatever. And also they have these ice packs that they can sit on. He does work. He tries to stand. He does have a standing desk, but when he is sitting, I was like, here, you just take your little ice pack to work. That’s right. Enjoy that. And they did recommend IVF to me.

Speaker 3 (25:24):
Yeah.

Rebecca (25:25):
Telling me you have diminished ovarian reserve, the whole thing, right? Your age, blah, blah, blah.

Aimee (25:31):
Who? Not RFC, someone else?

Rebecca (25:34):
No, this was one of the doctors who works at RFC after we had all the testing done.

Aimee (25:43):
Okay. And I was sort of like, huh, I disagree. And I am assuming we disagreed with that

Rebecca (25:50):
With Carrie. I’m like, please confirm. I didn’t say that. I was like, so this is what they’re recommending? And she’s like, do you want to do that? She’s like, this was the best. I’ll never forget you’re young. What are you rushing for? You’re like, wait. It was like bing. It was another thing that my brain needed to hear.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah,

Rebecca (26:16):
This, you’re not too late. Everything looks good. So I’m like, okay, that’s great. My gut feeling was the same thing. Also, I just feel like I didn’t have enough information. That initial workup was not enough for me. They didn’t look at my, even with all the testing I did on my own, through my naturopath with the a NA and everything, I still felt like I didn’t have enough information. My periods were lighter. What’s my lining look like? I want to invest not only financially, but also with my body will have to go through to do this process of IVF if my body and my husband’s sperm are not optimal. And I know that before. So what we did instead was a timed intercourse cycle to kind of get some more information. And that was in August of 24. So that ended up not being successful. But to me, I wasn’t upset because it showed again that my body was working.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I didn’t

Rebecca (27:29):
Have to take any triggers. My body searched on its own. I ovulated my lining was like a 15 or something.

Aimee (27:37):
Wow. Yeah,

Rebecca (27:39):
Totally fine. My estrogen was a little low, but because it didn’t affect my lining, they weren’t that worried about it. So after that, when everything looked okay on my end, I was like, let’s do another steam analysis. It had been several months already. And I just was curious because know it can shift very rapidly. Yeah,

Aimee (28:08):
Totally.

Rebecca (28:09):
So he went ahead and did it again, and it was worse than the first time. His morphology was a zero. Wow. Zero. And we were like, whoa. Because he’d been on the supplements, he’d been using the icing, the different underwear we had made some changes. So to have to be worse was a little shocking. Plus, as I mentioned before, he’s super healthy, but his form of exercise is cycling.

Aimee (28:38):
Yeah, that’s it.

Rebecca (28:39):
And I had mentioned earlier in this process, that’s not so good, but I didn’t want to force him to give it up because it’s such a stress relief and it’s obviously good for him to be exercising, and this whole process can put so much strain on your relationship. And I just didn’t want to have to go there. But after this result, he took it upon himself and stopped the cycling, which it was, I mean, amazing. It was such a sacrifice for

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Him.

Rebecca (29:18):
But he was good about what’s going to be a short time. So he started running and lifting more weights, and that was probably really good for his testosterone.

Aimee (29:28):
Totally, totally. Yeah.

Rebecca (29:30):
And he felt really good, actually. His body felt kind of different and more together. So he kind of ended up enjoying that time period. Also because his numbers were where they were, they recommended he do ozone treatments

Aimee (29:49):
Because at the time tumor, he was doing a study on, I think it’s still actually running on the

Rebecca (29:53):
Qualify to qualify for that study. So I was like, you go ahead and do this. So he got some of those treatments and it worked. We were pregnant within a few months.

Aimee (30:09):
Amazing. That’s the ozone sauna. It’s called the ho Cat, H-O-C-A-T-T. And you sit inside this

Rebecca (30:17):
Container. Exactly, yeah. It’s like a sauna for

Aimee (30:21):
Oxygen, and it’s really good for reducing inflammation and for being circulation and blood flow. But Mehi has done this pre and post with certain semen parameters, and almost across the board, the parameters improve. I don’t know, did he ever do a post semen analysis? He did. I’m not sure we ever

Rebecca (30:40):
Got those results, but even he noticed, obviously there’s a baby

Aimee (30:46):
In there.

Rebecca (30:48):
And it was so funny because the nurses there, they’re so great. They’re like, I come in and I’m pregnant. They’re like, oh, it’s another ozone baby. I love it. It’s really happening. You know what I mean? This is really working. And he could feel it. His post-exercise muscle soreness went away.

Aimee (31:08):
Yeah, that’s

Rebecca (31:09):
Amazing. That sauna. So it’s really, it’s not made up. It really is doing something physiologically. So we found out we were pregnant in the middle of November

Aimee (31:22):
Last year. I love it. I love it. So I mean, I think there’s lots of shifts of, obviously we shifted supplements. When you came to us, we got additional testing to rule out anything tweaked. The diet went lower on the histamine, increased the protein, then did some tweaks for him. But I think that semen analysis was a big piece that was, it was like your cycle shifted. You stopped with the spotting. We kind of nailed the progesterone thing. So it was almost like you were good to go. And then finding out about him, which I think is such an important piece. And then big piece of

Rebecca (32:06):
The

Aimee (32:06):
Puzzle. Yeah. Big piece of the puzzle. And then here we are. I love it.

Rebecca (32:12):
Yay.

Aimee (32:14):
So I don’t know. I know you had said in the beginning that you were watching these stories of hope, but now that you’re here, I don’t know, what do you want to share with all of them? Almost 44 pregnant naturally at home?

Rebecca (32:27):
Yep. I would say listen to Amy and her team. Even if you feel like, oh, I don’t know if I can do this, do it. It works. And also be patient. This isn’t something that happens overnight. I know when I started working with you guys, I was like, oh, I’m going to get pregnant in a minute. And no, it still took time. Your body needs time to adjust and to improve and check your guy, not just one time. You know what I mean? The sperm, it changes so rapidly. Keep checking, making sure that it’s as optimal as you can get it, because that really was the last little piece for us.

Aimee (33:17):
And I think even the immune work you did with Dr. Lewis, right? That’s who it was in the lead up for the HPV stuff, they’ll probably really prepped and got your immune system ready and improved cellular function. If we think about that too, we got rid of ayia, which that means cellular turnover, healthier cells. And so that I think translate as well to prepping for fertility.

Rebecca (33:43):
Even though at the time it seemed like a waste. I’m like, oh, I’m losing six months now. It actually absolutely contributed to a healthier system.

Aimee (33:56):
And then the pregnancy has been pretty easy so far.

Rebecca (34:00):
Yeah. Has been. I had all the normal stuff in the beginning, but I was welcoming it. I’m like, yes, I’m nauseous. This is amazing. It means it’s working. Everything is good. And now it’s just getting hard to wait.

Aimee (34:18):
I know. I know. 13 more weeks. Not bad, but being the heart of summer, it’ll be nice

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Getting close.

Aimee (34:26):
Yeah. Well, thank you so much. And what a great story. And I think it’s just such a testament to, even though in it, it feels long and hard, but the slow consistent shifts are what moves the needle. And also with that miscarriage where you kind of came back in and were like, okay, here are your choices. Talking to yourself.

Rebecca (34:50):
Yeah. It’s so mental. You can’t miss that piece of believing. And that’s what these stories are about.

Aimee (35:02):
Yeah, I

Rebecca (35:02):
Know you can do this,

Aimee (35:04):
You can do this. You did it. You’re living proof. And now all of you guys get to see that. And it’s hope. I mean, that’s it. That’s why I do them too. It’s just hope. And it’s, I think questioning the main stereotype or stigma that’s out there, or the dogmas that say, you’re too old. Your eggs are all bad. It’s like, no,

Rebecca (35:28):
I was definitely getting stuck in that. And luckily I had all these things that kept telling me that I was wrong and I finally believed.

Aimee (35:37):
Love it. I love it. Okay. Well I’m so excited for you. You have to keep us posted when baby gets here. Yeah. Thank you so much again for coming on and sharing. It just means so much to the community.

Rebecca (35:52):
Thank you. I was just thrilled to be able to give back. Hopefully help somebody out.

Aimee (35:58):
Oh my gosh. You’ll help out a lot. You’ll help out a lot. Alright everyone, thank you so much. Okay.