Ep. 22 - Infertility: How to Boost Your Chances & What Happens Next
From Surviving Tiny Humans: 10 Minute Triage for Newborns & New Parents by Dr. Kailey Buller
May 10, 2026 · 12 min · Season 1 · Episode 22
About this episode
This episode discusses infertility, its emotional impact, and practical ways to improve chances of conception.
Infertility affects one in five couples — and yet almost nobody talks about what the process actually looks like, what the testing involves, or what it does to you emotionally while you're in it. This episode is a little off-brand for Surviving Tiny Humans — and also exactly on brand, because everyone's path to parenthood looks different, and that deserves to be acknowledged. I'm sharing my own experience with secondary infertility — the particular whiplash of conceiving easily the first time and then not being able to get pregnant again — alongside the clinical side of what investigation and treatment actually look like. In this episode: Primary vs. secondary infertility — what they are and how common they actually are What testing looks like for both partners — and why, as usual, the burden falls disproportionately on women What the IVF process actually involves step by step — the hormones, the egg retrieval, the embryo grading, the implantation, and the waiting The emotional reality nobody prepares you for — including what it feels like when the test is positive one day and negative the next The only fertility supplements that actually have evidence behind them — and what to…
People in this episode
Host: Dr. Kailey Buller
Topics covered
- infertility
- parenthood
- IVF process
- emotional impact
- fertility supplements
- testing
- lifestyle factors
Keywords
- infertility
- IVF
- fertility supplements
- emotional reality
- testing
- primary infertility
- secondary infertility
- lifestyle factors
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