• 144. My Infertility Story: Lessons from Chana and Penina with Tee Simpser

  • Oct 1 2024
  • Length: 1 hr
  • Podcast

144. My Infertility Story: Lessons from Chana and Penina with Tee Simpser

  • Summary

  • On this episode of Talking Away The Taboo, Tee Simpser joins Aimee Baron, MD to talk about...

    -her diabetes diagnosis which she received when she was 12, which made it natural for her to share when she had trouble getting pregnant

    -her 6 years of primary infertility

    -heartbreaking disappointments, life-threatening complications and all kinds of insensitive comments

    -how she saw herself in the Chana/Penina story from the Book of Shmuel (book of Samuel), as she longed to be a mother, while watching everyone else around her get pregnant

    -her consideration of adoption at one point

    Spoiler alert: Tee does have two children, but her story teaches so many powerful lessons- 1- share your pain so that you can get the support you need 2-Call people out when they are making you uncomfortable

    More about Tee:

    Tee Simpser is a Jewish, modern Orthodox woman living the happily hectic life of an educator, wife, and mom to 2 miracle babies. One of Tee’s biggest goals in life is to destroy stigmas by talking about taboo topics like physical/mental health and infertility awareness.

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