Erica Hoke talks about supporting friends struggling with infertility. She shares stories from her book Infertility Success: Stories of Help and Hope for Your Journey, including how donor eggs, lifestyle changes, and an antibiotic made a difference for different women. She asks viewers to tag friends who need this and to comment if they buy the book.
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Happy Monday! Thanks for joining me here. Well, if you're curious about what in the world help means and what kind of favor your friends need and what kind of favor I need from you, let me just tell you. But first, let me just, um, get my timer started here because I keep these really short, okay? Under 5 minutes. So the favor that your friend needs is— I know every single person watching this video right now has a friend who who is going through infertility and struggling in some way. Um, if you're not a helpful person and you're like, I'm not gonna— I'm not going to help my friend, or button, or whatever you think, just keep scrolling because I'm going to be here every day, 5 days a week, because I believe it's my God-given mission to share my story and share my knowledge with people that are going through infertility so that they have hope. Okay. So that's the favor that I need. I need you to go ahead and all those people that you know in your life, if it's your cousin, your aunt, your sister, your best friend that are suffering from infertility, that are struggling through infertility, uh, I need you to tag them right now in this video because I'm going to just continue providing the best content for them. To be empowered on their infertility journey. So you need to do your friend a favor. I would like you to do me a favor, please. If we're friends and you're watching this on my personal page, please do me the favor of tagging your friend. Now it's not just my story that I'm sharing. Okay. Um, if you're like, whatever, you know, she got pregnant, it was just her. And how can one story possibly change, you know, somebody's journey? I can tell you it's not just my story. Okay. It's not just my story at all. I have a book that I published in the fall. If you didn't know, it's available on Amazon. I put the title here in the description of, uh, Infertility Success: Stories of Help and Hope for Your Journey. It's 20 women's stories. And just to highlight a few of them, you guys, there was a woman in the— that wrote a chapter. That lost her ability to use her own eggs and had— and, and went to a donor egg option because a test was not performed. She lost the ability to have her biological children because a doctor did not perform a test. There is another woman that only made small diet and lifestyle changes that created a massive shift in her body and in her health, and she was able to get pregnant. There are stories like this over and over again, including friends that wrote chapters about their egg donation process and what that was like and what they went through. We have all manner of stories, but the, the key component in every single one of these chapters is they did not— they persisted. They did not give up. Okay, um, they took their journey and they empowered themselves to ask questions and continue to dig for answers and testing. That is what made all the difference in the world. So just in case you're thinking that 20 stories is still not enough to make a case for advocating for yourself and being empowered in your infertility journey, I have 20 more women who are writing chapters right now for a second edition because we are all on fire to have these stories come out. Um, what we learned— one of my, uh, authors in the second book, it was a $10 antibiotic for her and her husband. That was the difference, not between just her getting pregnant once, but when her daughter was 7 months old, she unexpectedly got pregnant again. This is after I, I don't have it committed to memory. Um, it's here on YouTube if you're watching, but 9 failed procedures, I think, was her total count. 2 or 3 miscarriages. It was tragic. And if she had not persisted, she would not have those babies. So those are the kind of tidbits and stories and empowerment, um, that I want to share with you, that I want to share with your friends. So go ahead and tag those people. And hey, if you pick up the book, if you happen to see this and you pick up the book, drop me a link, comment in the link below. Drop me a comment in the comments below. Sorry. In the comments below, because I have a special gift for you as well. All right. Health and blessings to you guys. I will see you tomorrow. Bye.
