EP131: She worked as a nurse. She still had no one to call. Guest Laura Weppler

About this episode

Laura Weppler shares her personal journey through fertility challenges and the lack of support despite her medical expertise.

  What happens when the person who knows the most about fertility, who works inside the clinic every single day, still can't find the support she needs when loss hits her own life?   That's exactly what today's guest discovered. Laura Weppler is a fertility support professional, certified fertility doula, and registered nurse with over 12 years inside the fertility system. She's also a woman who navigated her own deeply traumatic pregnancy loss, multiple failed embryo transfers, and the relentless emotional spiral that no amount of clinical knowledge could protect her from. Now through her practice, Navigating Fertility with Laura, she's building the bridge between the medical and emotional sides of care that she desperately needed herself. In this conversation, Sharna and Laura explore what it really means to move through fertility treatment and pregnancy loss without adequate support, and why even the most informed women are still falling through the cracks. In this episode we cover: Laura's personal journey through IUIs, a traumatic miscarriage, multiple surgeries, a torn cervix, and failed IVF transfers — and why working inside the fertility clinic didn't protect…

People in this episode

Host: Sharna Southan

Guest: Laura Weppler

Topics covered

• fertility treatment
• pregnancy loss
• emotional support
• medical knowledge
• personal journey
• patient experience

Keywords

• fertility
• pregnancy loss
• emotional support
• IVF
• miscarriage
• fertility doula
• patient experience
• healthcare
• nurse

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Navigating Fertility with Laura

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