Holly Schechter always knew she wanted to be a mom. But getting there was a journey. After a car crash and two major spine surgeries, she struggled with infertility. Today, Holly shares her remarkable story of IVF… with a hopeful ending.

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Recommendations from the archive

• Infertility got you down? Maybe you need to laugh about it with infertility sketch comedy in our episode Awkward Adventures in Infertility.

• Our early episode The Longest Longest Time is about one woman’s struggle with miscarriages for 11 years… and how she eventually came to have a baby.

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Episode resources

• Holly is now head of education at Conceive, a digital platform that provides 24/7 medical and emotional support for people trying to get pregnant.

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