Erica Hoke shares how to advocate for yourself with infertility doctors: pay attention to your body's signals, review your lab results through patient portals, and push back when something feels wrong. Taking control of your own care matters.
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Yeah, it taught me that what my body was telling me mattered. You know, I had a lot of symptoms, so it taught me to pay attention to my body. It taught me to advocate for myself in the medical world. And really, it has taught me, you know, to advocate not only impacted myself, but now I can advocate in a different way for my children and my family, right? So we're all much healthier for the experience. And, you know, doctors, um, nobody knows your body better than you do, right? And nobody, nobody is going to care about your pregnancy more than you do. So you have to take some responsibility, and even, even if it's outside of your comfort zone, and learn about labs. I mean, we have so much, we have so much resources at our fingertips now, right? And most of the time the labs come directly into your email box and you've got a portal and all that kind of stuff that you can look at.