Erica Hoke shares how she conceived naturally despite stage 4 endometriosis, PCOS, fibroids, and genetic factors after being told she'd need donor eggs. She identifies persistence and advocating for diagnoses as the common thread among women who overcome infertility.
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Hey, good morning everyone. Thank you. Um, thank you for showing up this morning. Good morning. I'm not quite awake. I haven't had my coffee yet, but I wanted to make sure that I came on here because, um, I wanted to talk to you about why I believe some people overcome infertility. Uh, if you know my story at all, you know that I have 4 beautiful sons and that I overcame stage 4 endometriosis, PCOS, uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, as well as a quadruple gene mutation for MTHFR and another contributing infertility factor called Factor V Leiden. So despite that, without any medical intervention, because I couldn't, I couldn't do IVF, we chose not to do IUI because our odds were really, really low, less than 1%, that we overcame infertility 7 years after I was told that we would need donor eggs. We conceived and delivered a healthy baby boy. So, um, I am Erica Hoke, if you don't know me and haven't been on my channel. Uh, if you're watching— speaking of channels— if you're watching on YouTube, please hit that like and subscribe if you like my content. Um, and then I'll— you'll get notified because Facebook is not really great about that. If you're watching on Facebook and like my content, go over to YouTube and search my first and last name because then you'll get notified. Facebook's not really good at that. All right, so more and more I am interviewing women on my YouTube channel. Um, just recently talked to Constance Lewis, and she has an amazing story. But what is the one common thread that all of these women have in common, including myself? So Constance's story is a 6-year odyssey of multiple doctors, second opinions, not giving up, digging for answers. And that is the one contributing factor that I see through all of these ladies' stories, whether it is trying to get a diagnosis for your ureaplasma, um, like Erin Banks' story. Check that one out, that one is really amazing. Whether it is getting a diagnosis for secondary infertility, um, and then pursuing an answer and finding out that they sewed your bladder into your uterus, and that's why you have secondary infertility like Kassie Coleman. Um, these women refused to be silenced and not heard, and they kept going. Now, before anybody says, um, well, there are medical reasons that some people can't get pregnant— of course there are— but there, when you have a diagnosis of unexplained infertility, you have a doctor saying to you, I don't know how to help you. I don't know what other tests. If your tests come back normal, they're saying to you, I don't know what else to test you for. So you're going to have to figure that part of it out. All right, so I'm really fired up this morning because, um, I want to talk to you about something that's coming up. I have put together everything that I did to get to my point of conception and everything that I've learned since then through other people, and I'm bringing in some super friends to help you too. So it's called Optimize Fertility Blueprint, and it is going to be a 12-week guide of walking you through every single thing that is within your control to optimize your fertility, right? There's so much that's in our control, you guys, and we have to get out of the victim mentality and be looking for our knights in white coats to fix us, because there's a lot that's in your control when it comes to your fertility. There's a lot that affects our hormones that we have that are with— that's within our control. So, um, that will be coming out around the beginning of June. I'm not going to give you a date of June 1st, it's not quite ready, but I'll be letting you know. And what I'm looking for is I'm looking for 5 beta testers. So you will get the course at a substantially reduced price. I need 5 beta testers and it'll be 60% off. So if that is you, if you are interested in, um, checking out this program and optimizing your fertility, then drop me a message here, um, in my Messenger and, um, just tag it Optimize or Fertility or baby or whatever you want. And I will get back to you. What I don't want to happen is I don't want even my beta testers to go through this program if I can't help them. This is only for people that I feel like I can help because I know what's in the course and I can see where you're at on your journey and what might be missing. So I'm really excited because I'm able, I'm going to be able to bring this to a ton of people. And help shed some light on what has been overlooked on their fertility journey. So thank you so much for joining me. Health and blessings this morning. Have a great day, and I will catch you next time. Bye-bye.
